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PEABODY  MUSEUM 

Salem,   Massachusetts 
1921 


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Copyright,  1921,  by 

PEABODY  MUSEUM 

OT  Salem 


TABLE   OF   CONTENTS 

Introduction 1 

Oil  and  Water-Color  Paintings  of  Merchant  Vessels  15 

Miscellaneous  Pictures  of  Vessels 56 

Sketches  in  Water-Color    and  Black-and- White  58 
Paintings  and  Models  of  Naval  Vessels  of  the  United 

States 60 

Paintings  of  Miscellaneous  Naval  Vessels      ...  64 

Paintings  of  Wharves,  Harbors  and  Foreign  Ports  65 

Models 69 

Nautical  Instruments 88 

Portraits 100 

The  Collection  |of  Flags 120 

Summary  of  Other  Collections  in  the  Marine  Room    .  124 


APPENDIX 

Ship-Building  and  Ship-Builders 137 

Painters  of  the  Ship-Pictures 147 

Painters  of  the  Portraits 156 

Boats  and  Models  in  the  Ethnological  Collections  159 

References 166 

Index 175 


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LIST   OF   ILLUSTRATIONS 

Privateer  ship  ".4A/£:/?/C4"  (4th),  1812  .       .       Frontispiece 

Contemporary  model  two  feet  long. 

Ship"Fi?/£:iVZ>S///P"of  Salem,  1797 Title 

Model,  eight  feet  high.     Bow  view  sketch  by  Lewis  J.  Bridgman. 

Seal  of  the  Peabody  Museum " 

From  an  etching  by  Frank  W.  Benson,  1920. 

Seal  of  the  City  of  Salem xiv 

Replica,  14  inches  in  diameter,  of  bronze  seal,  given  the  U.  S.  Cruiser 
Salem  on  her  visit  to  the  harbor,  July  1909. 

Miniature  models  of  vessels 1^ 

Case,  five  feet  long,  containing  models  of  wood,  bone  and  glass.  1779 
to  1904. 

Topsailschooner  "5ALr/CX,"  1765 16 

The  earliest  picture  of  a  Salem  vessel.     From  the  original  water-color 
painting. 

Ship  "ylM£:/?/CA"  (3d)  of  Salem,  654  tons  ....         16 

The  largest  Salem-owned  vessel  until  1839.     Painting  by  M.  F.  Come. 
1799. 

Ship  ''CHARLEMAGNE"  of  New  York,  Addison  Richardson, 

Master 1^ 

Painting  by  Frederic  Roux,  1828. 

Brig  " CFG A^£r"  of  Salem,  1822 18 

Painting  by  Anton  Roux,  Jr.,  1824. 

Yacht ''CLEOPATRA'S  BARGE'' 20 

Built  by  Retire  Becket  for  George  Crowninshield,  Jr.,  1816.     Painting 
by  A.  Vittaluga,  Genoa,  1817. 

Bark"£L/Z^"of  Salem,  1823 20 

Sailed  for  California  with  a  party  of  gold-seekers,  December   1848. 
Painting  by  Benjamin  F.  West  of  Salem. 

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Whaling  ship  ''ELIZA  ADAMS''  of  New  Bedford,  1835         .        22 

"Cutting  in  a  Whale."     Painting  by  C.  S.  Raleigh. 

U.S.  Frigate  "£:SS£:X,"  860  tons 22 

Built  by  Enos  Briggs,  17P9;  the  largest  vessel  ever  built  at  Salem. 
Painting  by  Joseph  Howard. 

Brigantine  "£:XP£:i?/M£AT"of  Newburyport  .       ...         26 

Painting  by  Nicolai  Carmillieri,  Marseilles,  1807. 

Brig  ''EUNICE"  of  Salem  undergoing  repairs  at  St.  Paul's 

Island  in  the  Indian  Ocean 26 

Painting  by  Anton  Roux,  Marseilles,  1806. 

Ship  "//£:i?Ct/L£S"  of  Salem 30 

Painted  at  Naples,  1809. 

Privateer   brig   "GRAND     TURK''   of  Salem  saluting  Mar- 
seilles          30 

Painting  by  Anton  Roux,  Marseilles,  1815. 

Clipper  ship  "/Oi/iV  5£/?ri?/lM"  of  Salem      ....         32 

Built  at  Boston,  1851. 

Topsail  schooner  "//.//.  COL£"  of  Salem,  1843  ...         32 

Painting  by  Clement  Drew. 

English  yacht  "LOf//S A"  at  Marseilles 34 

Painting  by  Anton  Roux,  1816. 

Ship  "AM/?G^/?£r"  of  Salem 34 

Painting  by  M.  F.  Come,  1802. 

Brig  "M£:X/C^iV"  of  Salem 36 

Sketch  by  Benjamin  Read,  mate  of  the  Mexican,  made  September  21, 
1832,  the  morning  after  the  brig  had  been  attacked  by  pirates  and 
robbed. 

Ship  "A/OA^X"  of  Salem .38 

Painting  by  Nicolai  Carmillieri,  Marseilles,  1806. 

Ship  "MO t/A^r    VERNON"  oiS^X^m 38 

Escaping  from  a  French  fleet  off  Gibraltar,  Julv  28,  1799.  Painting  bv 
M.  F.  Come,  1799. 

Ship  "M/A^Z)0/?0"  of  Salem 40 

The  last  ship  owned  in  Salem,  1897.     Painting  by  Charles  Torrey,  1920. 

vi 


Brig  "iV^MZ)"  of  Salem 42 

Painting  by  Anton  Roux,  Marseilles,  1820. 

Brig  "OL/A^Z)^"  of  Salem 42 

Painting  by  Francois  Roux,  Marseilles,  1827. 

Bark  "Pyir/?/Or"  of  Salem .44 

Passing  Elsinore.     Painting  by  Jacob  Petersen,  1809. 

Ship  " RECOVERY'' oi  Salem 44 

Painting  by  William  Ward,  1799. 

Bark  ''RICHARD"  of  Salem  and  ship  "JULIAN"  of  New 

Bedford  whaling  in  the  South  Pacific  Ocean,  1837    .        .  46 

Painting  10  feet  long;  represents  the  various  phases  of  sperm  whaling. 

Ship  "POME"  of  Salem 48 

Painting  by  Hre.  Pellegrini,  Marseilles,  1848. 

Brigantine  "Sf/ZCEF"  of  Salem 48 

Painting  by  M.  Macpherson,  after  George  Ropes  in  1804. 

Ship  "rP/f/MP//^iVr"  of  Salem 50 

Painting  by  George  Ropes,  1804. 

Packet  ship ''f/A^/r^Z)  SPATES"        ....  .50 

Painting  by  Robert  Salmon,  1817. 

Ship  "f/LFSSES"  (2d)  of  Salem 52 

Capt.  William  Mugford  rigging  a  temporary  rudder,  February,  1  1804. 
One  of  a  set  of  three  paintings  by  Anton  Roux,  1804,  depicting  the 
experiences  of  the  Ulysses  in  a  gale  and  the  safe  arrival  at  Marseilles. 

Modelof  the  ship"  f/LFSSES"  (2d) 52 

Made  in  1804  by  Captain  William  Mugford  to  illustrate  his  temporary 
rudder. 

Ship  "KOL[/SM"  of  Salem 54 

Wrecked  on  Cape  Cod,  February  22,  1802.  Painting  bv  M.  F.  Corne, 
1802. 

Clipper  ship  "  WITCH-OF-THE-WAVE"  of  Salem    ...         54 

Built  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H..  1851. 

U.S.  Frigate  "ESSEX" 60 

Capture  by  H.  B.  M.  Phcebe  and  Cherub  at  Valparaiso,  Chile,  March  28, 
1814.     Painting  by  George  Ropes,  Salem,  1815. 


Frigates ''CHESAPEAKE''  and  "SHANNON''  engaging  off 
Salem,  June  1,  1813 60 

Painting  by  Ross  Sterling  Turner,  Salem,  1895. 

Chincha  Islands  off  the  coast  of  Peru 62 

With  ships  in  foreground  awaiting  cargoes  of  guano.  Painting  made 
about  1845-1855. 

Mocha,  Arabia 62 

With  ships  waiting  to  load  with  coffee.     Painting  made  about  1825. 

Crowninshield's  Wharf,  Salem,  during  the  embargo      ...         64 
With  ship  America  (4th)  at  end  of  wharf  and  ship  Fame  next.     Painting 
by  M.  Macpherson,  after  George  Ropes  in  1806. 

U.S.  Frigate  "CO A^Sr/rf/r/OiV,"  built  1797     ....         66 

Model,  5  feet  long,  a  gift  to  the  museum  by  Captain  Isaac  Hull,  July, 
1813.  Bill  from  British  prisoners  of  war  held  in  Salem  for  repairing  the 
model.  May,  1814. 

Foreign  Factories  at  Canton,  1840 68 

Residences  of  foreign  merchants  and  consuls.  Painting  by  a  Chinese 
artist. 

Shamien  Consulates,  Canton,  about  1860 68 

These  replaced  the  Factories  destroyed  in  1852.  Painting  by  a  Chinese 
artist. 

"Tiger's  Mouth"  on  the  Pearl  River  below  Canton     ...         70 

Painting  by  a  Chinese  artist,  about  1850. 

Hong  Kong,  about  1850 70 

Painting  by  a  Chinese  artist. 
Macao,  the  Portugese  settlement  in  China,  about  1840  72 

Painting  by  a  Chinese  artist. 

Whampoa,  the  port  of  Canton,  about  1840 72 

Painting  by  a  Chinese  artist. 

Schooner  "BENJAMIN  F.  PHILLIPS" 74 

Winner  of  the  fishermen's  race,  1904.     Model  by  Arthur  Binney. 

Pinkey  "EAGLE'' 74 

Built  at  Duxbury,  Mass.,  1854,  and  still  afloat.  Model  by  Arthur 
Binney. 

Brig  "C^MEL"  of  Salem 76 

Captured  from  the  British  in  1814.     Model  by  Daniel  C.  Becket,  1873. 


Ship '' FRIENDSHIP''  oi  Salem  76 

Model  by  Thomas  Russell,  1803. 

Bark"L.4    Gi?.4A^G£:"  of  Salem  ,        .  .78 

Sailed  for  California.  1849.  Model  by  Dr.  Levi  Saunders,  one  of  the 
passengers. 

Barkeniine'' HERBERT  FULLER'' 78 

Model  made  in  1897. 

U.  S.  S.  "0///0" 80 

Model  by  Enoch  Fuller,  1850. 

Block  Island  boat  "L£:.V.4   M"  80 

A  fast-disappearing  type.     Model  by  H.  E.  Boucher,  1910. 

Brig  "RISING  STATES" 82 

Model  made  before  1800. 

Whaling  bark  "S£A   FOX"  of  New  Bedford,  1874     ...         82 

A  contemporary  model. 

Ship  of  the  18th  century 84 

.•\  contemporary  model. 

Clipper  ship 84 

Model  with  sails  carved  from  wood,  made  about  1855. 

Group  in  Marine  Room  entry 86 

Builder's  half-hull  models  of  Salem  ships,  1809-1870,  the  longest  5>i 
feet.  Scale  beams  and  weights  used  by  Salem  ships  on  the  coast  of 
Sumatra  for  weighing  pepper,  1820-1850.  Stone  pepper  weight,  early 
19th  century.  Ship's  drag,  or  sea-anchor,  from  William  Gray's  store- 
house, Salem,  about  1805. 

Nautical  instruments 86 

Collection  exhibited  in  the  corridor  of  the  museum. 

Miscellaneous  instruments 88 

Gauging  calipers,  1790,  61^2  feet  long;  calipers,  later  form;  long- 
armed  serving-mallets  used  by  riggers  about  1830;  instruments  for  draw- 
ing curves,  one  inscribed  "William  Addison  1693." 

Non-metallic  instrument  by  Dollond,  London,  about  1780  92 

For  detecting  slight  variations  of  the  earth's  magnetism. 

Spy-glasses 94 

From  above,  Dutch,  old,  5  feet  long,  used  at  Nagasaki,  Japan;    from 


U.  S.  S.  Guerriere,  1815;  from  a  British  prize  vessel  taken  by  an  Amer- 
ican privateer,  1779;  later  forms,  one  used  by  Enos  Briggs,  builder  of 
the  frigate  Essex,  1799;  one  used  by  Capt.  Edward  Weston  on  the 
clipper  ship  Joseph  Peabody,  1856;   tapering  form,  about  1820. 

Nocturnals 94 

Used  for  obtaining  time  by  the  North  star;  one  at  left  inscribed, 
"Nathii  Viall  1724";  the  one  on  the  right  shows  the  reverse  of  a  sim- 
ilar instrument. 

Davis  quadrants 96 

At  left,  an  old  form  with  solid  shade-vane,  about  1750;  at  right,  later 
form  with  convex  glass  in  shade-vane,  dated  1768. 

Hadley  quadrants  (octants) 98 

Above,  at  left,  John  Dupee,  maker,  1755,  wholly  of  wood;  at  right, 
John  Gilbert,  maker,  Lx)ndon,  1768,  arm  partly  of  metal,  ivory  scale; 
below,  at  left,  Spencer  Browning  &  Rust,  makers,  about  1800;  at 
right,  J.  Urings,  London,  maker,  wholly  of  metal,  probably  late  18th 
century. 

Sextants •        .       100 

Above,  at  left,  Bradford,  London,  maker,  about  1810;  at  right,  J. 
Bleuler,  London,  wooden  frame,  ivory  scale,  an  unusual  form,  prob- 
ably old;  below,  the  sextant  used  in  Africa  by  Dr.  David  Livingstone, 
the  explorer,  made  by  G.  Gowland,  Liverpool 

Captain  John  Carnes  (1755-1796) 106 

Portrait  painted  about  1785. 

Captain  William  Cleveland  (1777-1842) 106 

Pastel  portrait  by  St.  Memin. 

Portraits  of  Orientals 114 

Ahmet  ben  Haman  of  Muscat,  by  Edward  Mooney,  at  New  York, 
1840;  Seyyid  Said,  Sultan  of  Zanzibar,  by  Lieut.  Lynch,  about  1850; 
Eshing,  silk  merchant  of  Canton,  and  Nasserwanjee,  Parsee  merchant 
of  Bombay,  early  19th  century,  by  native  artists. 

Life-size  clay  figures  of  native  Calcutta  merchants       .        .  116 

Durgha  Prasanna  Ghose,  Rajkissen  Mitter,  Rajendra  Dutte.  Early 
19th  century. 

Yamqua 118 

Merchant  of  Canton.  The  head  and  hands  were  carved  by  Samuel 
Mclntire,  the  Salem  carver  and  architect,  1801.     Life-size  figure. 


Chinese  Mandarin 118 

The  head  and  hands  were  carved  by  Joseph  True,  a  Salem  carver, 
1838.     Life-size  figure. 

Whaling  implements 124 

Mounted  for  use,  shown  in  the  corridor  of  the  museum.  Blubber 
fork,  grains  for  handling  blubber,  cutting  spades,  lances,  old  type  of 
hand  harpoons,  etc. 

Whaling  guns 124 

Brass  breech-loading  shoulder  gun;  bomb-lance  shoulder  gun;  Greener 
harpoon  gun. 

Figurehead 126 

Said  to  have  been  carved  by  Samuel  Mclntire  of  Salem,  about  1800. 
2  feet  high. 

Billet-head 126 

Ascribed  to  the  frigate  Constitution.     7  feet  high. 

Log-books 128 

At  left,  ship  Elizabeth  of  Salem,  1838,  with  sketch  of  harbor  and  head- 
land in  the  South  Pacific  ocean,  and  the  capture  of  two  whales  recorded. 
At  right,  page  from  the  log  of  the  ship  Hercules  of  Salem,  1792,  with 
sketches  of  town  on  the  Malabar  coast  and  harbor  at  Fayal. 

Rope  work  by  sailors  130 

Chest  beckets  (handles) ;  imitation  of  a  prick  of  spun  yarn  for  smug- 
gling tobacco;  spun  yarn  prick  ready  for  use;  stopper  for  holding  a 
rope  for  splicing. 

Old-time  punishments  at  sea 130 

Leg  irons  on  chain;  hand-cuffs;  leg  irons  on  bar;  slung  shot;  brass 
knuckles;  colt  and  cat-o-nine-tails  for  flogging;  belaying  pin  of  whale 
pan-bone. 

Wooden  lantern 132 

Used  on  vessels  before  1750  by  Captain  Samuel  Page.     2  feet  high. 

Speaking-trumpets 132 

Left  to  right,  used  by  Captain  Edward  Weston  of  Salem  on  ship  Joseph 
Peahody,  1856;  telescopic,  extending  to  40  inches,  about  1840;  used 
by  Captain  Joseph  Hardy  Millett  on  ship  Witch-of-the-Wave  of  Salem, 
1851. 

Killicks 134 

From  left  to  right,  net  anchor;  mooring  anchor,  5  feet  high,  for  a  sandy 
bottom;   boat  anchor. 


Puzzle-work  in  bottles 134 

Made  by  sailors  on  lone  voyages,  1810-1840.  Central  bottle  12  inches 
high. 

Scrimshaw  work  by  sailors  on  whaling  voyages     ....       138 

On  left,  busk  used  in  ladies'  stays.  From  top,  jagging  wheels  for 
crimping  the  edges  of  pastry;  seam  rubber;  serving  board;  pickwick 
for  oil  lamps;   shoemaker's  tool;   bodkin;   blocks. 

Scrimshaw  work  on  whales'  teeth 140 

Ship  Chinchilla  of  New  York,  about  1830;  naval  engagement,  1812; 
whaling  scene,  ship  Susan  of  Nantucket,  1829;  Goddess  of  Liberty, 
about  1830;  ship,  one  of  a  pair  made  on  the  Wilkes  Exploring  Expedi- 
tion, 1838-1842. 

Dr.  Nathaniel  Bowditch  relics 142 

Sextant,  quadrant  and  spy-glass  used  by  him  while  commanding  Salem 
vessels,  about  1800;  first  edition  of  Bowditch's  Navigator,  published 
1801;  manuscript  endorsement  of  the  Navigator  by  a  committee  of 
the  Salem  East  India  Marine  Society.  1801. 

Dr.  Nathaniel  Bowditch's  table  desk 144 

At  which  he  translated  La  Place's  Mechanique  Celeste. 

Michele  Felice  Corne,    1757-1845 146 

From  portrait  in  Redwood  Library,  Newport,  R.  L 

Delft  bowl 150 

Taken  from  a  prize  vessel  captured  by  a  Marblehead  privateer  during 
the  American  Revolution.     10  inches  in  diameter. 

Captain  Addison  Richardson  relics 150 

Sextant,  speaking  trumpet,  silver  pitcher,  spy-glass  and  medicine  chest 
given  Capt.  Richardson  by  passengers  on  packet  ships  under  his  com- 
mand, 1830-1840. 

"Grand   Turk"  punch-bowl 152 

Chinese  Lowestoft  ware,  made  for  Elias  Hasket  Derby  at  Canton. 
1786.     16  inches  in  diameter. 

Staffordshire  punch-bowls 154 

Show^ing  the  engagement  between  the  U.S.  frigate  "Constellation" 
and  the  French  frigate  " Insicr genie,"  1799,  made  for  the  Salem  East 
India  Marine  Society.     13  inches  in  diameter. 

Tureens  of  Chinese  Lowestoft  ware 154 

Presented  to  the  Salem  East  India  Marine  Society  in  1803.  Used  at 
the  annual  banquets  of  the  Society.     22  inches  long. 


Venetian  glass  chandelier li)6 

Presented  to  the  Salem  East  India  Marine  Society  in  1804  by  Capt. 
Benjamin  Carpenter.  The  timbering  of  Marine  Room  ceiling,  1824, 
shows  in  the  picture. 

"  Heaven  and  the  Day  of  Judgment " 158 

Boxwood  carving,  for  one  hundred  years  the  best  known  object  in  the 
museum. 

Formosa  bambu  fishing  raft 160 

Model  made  before  1877. 

Japanese  trading  junk 160 

Working  model  of  a  Japanese  junk-builder,  about  1800. 

American  brig 162 

Model  made  by  a  native  of  the  West  Coast  of  Africa  about  1852. 

Dhow  or  trading  boat 162 

Model  made  by  a  native  of  the  East  Coast  of  Africa  before  1849. 

Chinese  Mandarin's  boat 164 

Model  made  before  1883. 

Chinese  flower  boat 164 

Ivory  model  made  before  1883. 

Fiji  double  canoe 166 

Model  made  before  1858. 

Kusaie  outrigger  canoe 166 

Model  made  in  1892. 


SEAL    OF    THE    CITY    OF    SALEM 
Replica  of  the  bronze  seal  given  by  the  city  to  the  U.  S.  S.  SALEM,  July,  1909. 


The  seal  was  adopted  in  1839,  three  years  after  the  city  charter  was  granted.  The 
design  was  prepared  in  1838  by  Col.  George  Peabody,  chairman  of  the  committee 
in  charge  of  the  matter.  The  date,  1626,  is  the  year  of  the  settlement  at  Naumkeag, 
or  Naum  Keik,  by  Roger  Conant  and  others.  John  Endicott  came  in  1628  with  more 
settlers  and  supplies  which  ensured  the  permanency  of  the  colony.  The  actual  "incor- 
poration of  Salem  should  stand  the  29th  of  June,  1629"  [Felt's  Annals].  The  "English 
not  only  found  it  a  haven  of  comfort  but  also  happened  to  put  a  Hebrew  name  upon  it, 
for  they  called  it  Salem  for  the  peace  they  had  hoped  in  it"  [Mather's  Magnalia]. 
The  crest  is  the  dove  of  peace  holding  an  olive  branch  in  its  beak.  Salem  was  the 
second  Massachusetts  city;  Boston  was  incorporated  in  1822. 

The  official  entry  in  adopting  the  seal  reads,  —  "In  the  center  thereof  a  shield 
bearing  upon  it  a  ship  under  full  sail  approaching  a  coast,  designated  by  the  costume 
of  the  person  standing  upon  it,  and  by  the  trees  near  him,  as  a  portion  of  the  East 
Indies.  The  motto,  —  " Divilis  Indies  usque  ad  ultimum  sinum,"  signifies, — To  the 
farthest  port  of  the  rich  East. 

"As  calculated  at  East  India  Marine  Hall  [probably  by  Nathaniel  Bowditch 
the  latitude  is  42°  31' 18  53-100"  North;  the  longitude  is  70°  53' 53  3-100"  West. 
[Felt's  Annals]. 


INTRODUCTION 

The  Salem  East  India  Marine  Society  was  founded  and  its  Museum 
begun  in  the  autumn  of  1799.  The  Museum  was  to  contain  "natural 
and  artificial  curiosities,  particularly  such  as  are  to  be  found  beyond 
the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  and  Cape  Horn."  The  objects  connected 
with  our  merchant  marine  and  the  life  of  a  sailor  were,  in  those  days, 
at  every  hand  and  were  considered  too  common  to  be  placed  in  a 
museum.  During  the  first  fifty  years  of  its  existence  ship  models, 
pictures  of  ships  and  related  objects  were,  however,  incidentally  received 
by  the  museum  through  gifts  and  the  portraits  of  Salem  merchants 
and  members  of  the  society  were  at  the  same  time  gradualh"  accum- 
ulated. But  not  until  1889  was  it  attempted  to  bring  together  the 
marine  objects  as  a  special  collection  and  to  solicit  additions  from 
friends  of  the  museum  with  the  idea  of  forming  a  memorial  of  the 
commercial  marine  period. 

The  museum  of  the  East  India  Marine  Society  first  occupied 
rooms  on  the  third  floor  of  Stearns  building  which  formerly  stood  on 
the  north-east  corner  of  Essex  and  Washington  streets,  but  in  1804 
it  was  removed  to  rooms  in  the  new  Pickman  building  on  Essex  street, 
especially  fitted  for  the  society.  Here  the  museum  increased  so 
rapidly  that  in  1824  the  society  erected  the  present  East  India  Marine 
Hall  which  provided  the  museum  with  a  room  one  hundred  b}-  forty- 
five  feet  in  size.  The  dedication  was  a  great  event  and  took  place 
October  14,  1825,  John  Quincy  Adams,  at  the  time  President  of  the 
United  States,  delivering  the  opening  address.  There  sat  at  the 
banquet  given,  also,  Justice  Story  of  the  U.  S.  Supreme  Court, 
Hon.  Benjamin  W.  Crowninshield,  former  Secretary  of  Navy  and 
then  member  of  Congress  from  the  district,  Hon.  Josiah  Quincy,  mayor 
of  Boston,  Col.  Timothy  Pickering  of  Washington's  cabinet.   Pres- 


ident  Kirkland  of  Harvard  College  and  many  other  men  distin- 
guished in  mercantile  and  professional  life.  In  1867  this  building  was 
purchased  by  the  Trustees  of  the  Peabody  Museum  and  the  collections 
of  the  East  India  Marine  Society  were  transferred  to  the  Trustees  upon 
permanent  deposit. 

The  marine  collection  was  first  arranged  (1890)  in  the  northern 
end  of  the  Ethnological  hall.  In  January,  1904,  by  means  of  funds 
contributed  by  friends  it  was  permanently  established  in  the  present 
Marine  Room  which  was  prepared  especially  for  it.  The  collection 
includes  portraits  of  Salem  merchants,  members  and  oflficers  of  the 
East  India  Marine  Society,  relics  connected  with  the  early  history 
and  social  character  of  the  society,  paintings  and  rigged  models  of 
vessels,  builders'  half-hull  models,  nautical  instruments,  whaling 
material,  "scrimshaw"  work  on  whales'  teeth  and  bone,  ship-car- 
penters' and  ship-builders'  tools  and  souvenirs  and  objects  of  all  sorts 
connected  with  a  sailor's  life.  A  large  collection  of  signal  flags,  of 
American  flags  used  by  Salem  ships,  and  of  other  flags  both  American 
and  foreign,  of  historical  interest,  has  been  gathered.  A  cabinet, 
systematically  arranged,  holds  some  5,000  mounted  photographs, 
drawings,  engravings  and  prints  of  ships;  cards,  prints  and  illus- 
trations of  many  kinds;  and  documents  relating  to  shipping,  par- 
ticularly local  shipping,  and  matters  connected  with  the  merchant 
marine.  Over-sized  sheets  are  kept  in  portfolios;  there  are  some 
300  in  the  last  named  collection,  —  pictures,  broadsides,  sea-letters 
and  permits  signed  by  the  Presidents  of  the  United  States,  and 
numerous  shipping  papers. 

Besides  large  additions  made  thru  the  gifts  of  friends,  in  1918 
the  Essex  Institute,  taking  the  broad  view  that  objects  relating  to 
shipping  would  be  most  useful  and  best  serve  the  public  in  one  museum, 
deposited  all  such  material  in  its  own  collection  with  the  Peabody 
Museum. 

The  publication  of  a  hand-book  of  the  Marine  Room  has  been 
in  contemplation  for  a  long  time  and  now  that  the  collection  has 
become  so  large  and  as  time  passes  the  accessions  of  portraits,  ship 


paintings  and  models  are  likely  to  be  less  frequent,  it  seems  desirable 
to  issue  a  catalog  of  that  portion  of  the  collection  with  notes.  Many 
of  the  paintings  and  other  objects  in  the  collection  have  been  photo- 
graphed and  prints  from  the  negatives  may  be  obtained  upon 
application. 


The  site  chosen  for  Salem  in  1626  decided  its  maritime  character; 
the  fishing  industry  and  the  building  of  vessels  began  almost  with 
the  settlement.  Before  1650  Salem  vessels  were  trading  in  Virginia, 
the  Bermudas,  the  West  Indies  and  in  England.  Josselyn  in  1664 
says  that  "in  Salem  are  some  very  rich  merchants."  The  vessels 
before  1700  were  of  forty  tons  displacement  or  less,  although  one 
ship  is  recorded  of  200  tons. 

[Tonnage,  —  displacement,  is  the  weight  of  the  water  displaced  by  the  vessel 
afloat,  hence  the  weight  of  the  vessel  in  tons,  either  without  cargo  or  loaded  as  the 
case  may  be.  Tonnage,  —  burden,  gross  and  net,  sometimes  referred  to  as  registered 
tonnage,  are  arbitrary  terms  and  as  now  estimated  represent,  (gross)  the  number  of 
hundred  cubic  feet  in  the  hold  of  a  vessel;  and  (net)  the  number  of  hundred  cubic 
feet  available  for  the  cargo  after  making  certain  deductions  for  crew's  quarters,  ship's 
storage,  machinery,  etc.  Changes  have  been  made  from  time  to  time  in  figuring  net 
tonnage,  it  was  frequently  estimated  differently  at  difTerent  ports,  and  from  a  desire 
to  avoid  tonnage  taxes  owners  have  naturally  endeavored  to  make  it  as  small  as  possible. 
The  tonnage,  gross  and  net,  as  estimated  by  government  officials  is  cut  into  one  of  the 
deck  beams  of  the  vessel.  The  net  tonnage,  of  course,  in  no  way  shows  the  weight  of 
the  cargo.  Thirty-five  cubic  feet  of  water  or  a  tank  of  water  7x5x1  feet  weighs  one 
ton.  On  the  average  a  ton  of  cargo  will  occupy  about  45  cubic  feet  of  space.  While 
the  tonnage  expressed  is  a  somewhat  uncertain  quantity,  and  w'hether  intended  as 
displacement  or  burden  is  not  always  clear,  still  it  offers  the  best  available  way  to 
compare  the  sizes  of  the  vessels  in  these  lists.] 

Philip  English  in  the  late  seventeenth  century  and  Richard 
Derby  in  the  middle  eighteenth  were  the  most  noted  merchants  of 
their  times.  Prior  to  the  American  Revolution  Salem  commerce 
was  conducted  chiefly  with  the  West  Indies,  Madeira,  Spain  and 
England.  At  the  close  of  the  Revolution,  however,  Salem  merchants 
were  possessed  of  many  large,  heavy  ships  —  large  for  the  times  — 
armed  for  privateering  and  for  these  occupation  must  be  found  or 


loss  sustained.  With  courage  and  enterprise  these  ships  were 
dispatched  on  new  ventures  to  distant  countries  through  uncharted 
seas  and  Salem  shipmasters  found  their  way  and  were  the  first  to 
carry  the  American  flag  to  many  foreign  ports.  It  is  this  period  from 
1784  until  its  close  which  the  collection  in  the  Marine  Room  illus- 
trates, a  period  of  about  one  hundred  years,  beginning  with  the  voyage 
of  the  ship  Grand  Turk  to  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  and  to  Canton 
and  of  the  Light  Horse  to  St.  Petersburg  in  1784  - 1785  and  ending 
with  the  sale  in  1894  of  the  Mindoro,  the  last  square-rigged  vessel 
owned  in  Salem,  which  had  lain  idly  at  Derby  wharf  for  ten  years. 

The  early  ships  of  this  period  were  small.  The  Grand  Turk  (1st) 
1784,  was  300  tons;  the  Light  Horse,  266  tons;  the  Friendship,  1797, 
342  tons;  the  Mount  Vernon,  1798,  355  tons;  the  Prudent,  1799,  214 
tons;  the  Margaret,  1800,  295  tons.  These  little  ships  made  voyages 
to  all  parts  of  maritime  Europe  and  the  East.  The  brigs  were  still 
smaller,  from  150  to  230  tons,  and  yet  they  also  visited  far  distant 
ports. 

The  only  picture  known  of  a  Salem  vessel  prior  to  the  Revolution 
is  that  of  the  schooner  Baltick  in  1765,  the  next  being  the  Mount 
Vernon  by  Corne  and  the  Recovery  and  Friendship  by  William  Ward 
in  1799.  From  this  date  pictures  of  Salem  vessels  are  numerous; 
at  first  nearly  all  were  water-color  paintings,  many  of  them  beau- 
tifully  as  well  as  accurately  done,  especially  those  by  Anton  Roux 
and  his  sons  Anton,  Jr.,  Francois  and  Frederic.  The  earliest  oil 
paintings  were  made  by  Corne  and  George  Ropes,  his  pupil,  both 
of  Salem,  but  after  1830  oil  paintings  are  more  numerous,  nearly  all 
the  work  of  local  painters,  until  the  appearance  of  the  host  of  ship 
pictures  by  Chinese  painters  at  Whampoa  and  Hong  Kong.  At 
this  time,  1840  to  1890,  including  the  "Clipper-Ship  Era,"  many 
artists  in  Europe  and  America  were  also  painting  the  famous  ships. 

It  is  often  asked  why,  comparatively,  so  few  of  the  hundreds 
of  Salem  owned  vessels  were  ever  pictured.  From  1800  to  1830  ship- 
picture  painters  appear  to  have  been  located  in  many  of  the  Med- 
iterranean   ports.    Genoa.    Naples,    Marseilles.    Palermo.    Leghorn, 


Trieste,  Port  Mahon  and  Smyrna.  There  were  painters  at  Havre, 
Antwerp  and  Copenhagen  and  later  Chinese  artists  were  found  at 
Whampoa,  Macao,  Lintin  and  Hong  Kong.  Local  painters  worked 
at  Salem,  Robert  Salmon  at  Liverpool  and  Boston  and  others  else- 
where. Sometimes  a  member  of  the  ship's  company  was  artistically 
inclined,  as  Edmund  Stone  of  Beverly,  who  has  left  so  many  excellent 
pictures  of  the  ship  George,  and  sometimes  the  keeper  of  the  log- 
book, captain,  mate  or  supercargo,  illustrated  his  log  with  sketches, 
occasionally  in  colors,  of  his  ship  or  others  met  on  a  voyage.  But 
unless  a  vessel  visited  one  of  these  foreign  ports  where  painters  worked 
or  was  painted  by  some  local  artist  its  picture  was  never  made.  Prob- 
ably not  one  Salem  vessel  in  ten  was  ever  pictured.  Some  of  the 
later  ships,  after  1860,  were  photographed  as  nearly  every  ship  of 
note  is  today. 

There  were  but  few  Salem  built  or  Salem  owned  vessels  that 
exceeded  500  tons  displacement  in  the  early  days.  The  second  Grand 
Turk,  built  in  Salem  for  Elias  Hasket  Derby  in  1791,  was  564  tons, 
and  the  third  America  purchased  by  the  Crowninshields  as  the  Blonde 
from  the  French  government  was  654  tons,  but  she  was  soon  sold  back 
and  re-entered  the  French  Navy.  These  were  exceptionally  large 
ships  for  the  times.  The  frigate  Essex  of  860  tons,  built  for  the  United 
States  government  by  the  merchants  of  Salem  in  1799,  was  the  largest 
vessel  ever  built  in  Salem.  There  were  no  more  large  vessels  owned 
or  built  in  Salem  until  the  appearance  of  the  New  Jersey  of  633  tons 
in  1833  owned  by  Joseph  Peabody,  a  New  York  ship  sold  away  from 
Salem  in  1843,  the  ship  Thomas  Perkins  of  595  tons  in  1837,  and  the 
ship  Susan  Drew  of  696  tons  in  1839  owned  and  commanded  by  Jer- 
emiah Page.  No  vessel  so  large  as  the  Grand  Turk  of  1791,  —  which 
was  always  spoken  of  in  its  day  as  "the  Great  Ship"— was  built 
in  Salem  for  nearly  eighty  years  until  the  bark  Jersey  of  599  tons 
was  built  in  South  Salem  by  E.  F.  Miller  for  Captain  John  Bertram 
in  1868;  the  barks  Guide  and  Glide  each  of  495  tons  had  preceded 
it  and  there  followed  in  1870  the  bark  Taria  Topan,  631  tons,  also 
built  by  E.  F.  Miller,  the  last  large  square-rigged  vessel  built  in  Salem; 


none  of  these  Bertram  ships,  however,  very  much  exceeded  the  size 
of  the  Grand  Turk  of  1791. 

After  1850  the  size  of  Salem  owned  ships  increased  rapidly,  the 
John  Bertram,  1050  tons  and  the  Witchcraft,  1240  tons  in  1850;  the 
Witch  of  the  Wave,  1493  tons  in  1851;  the  Mindoro,  1065  tons  in  1864; 
the  Highlander  of  1352  tons  in  1869;  and  the  Panay  of  1190  tons  in 
1877,  were  nearly  all  built  at  Medford  and  Boston.  The  largest  ships 
ever  owned  in  Salem  of  which  little  has  ever  been  said  here  and  little 
ever  known  were  the  Bridgewater  of  1557  tons  built  at  Philadelphia 
in  1855  and  the  ship  Cultivator  of  1581  tons  built  at  New  York  in 
1854.  Both  ships  were  packets,  the  latter  of  the  famous  Black-Bali 
Line.  They  were  owned  by  Paul  Upton  of  Salem  from  1873  to  1877 
altho  they  never  visited  their  adopted  home  port.  In  fact,  none 
of  the  largest  ships  after  1850  loaded  or  discharged  cargoes  in  Salem. 

While  tonnage  figures  have  been  used  as  a  convenient  way  of 
showing  the  comparative  size  of  the  vessels,  a  few  examples  of  the 
length,  breadth  and  depth  of  some  of  the  well  known  ships  will  help 
to  illustrate  the  differences. 


Name 

Date 

Length  Breadth  Depth 

Tons 

Cost 

Ship  Grand  Turk 

1791 

124 

32 

16 

560 

Ship  Belisarius 

1794 

93 

25 

12>^ 

261 

Ship  Friendship 

1797 

102 

27K 

14 

342 

Ship  Mount  Vernon 

1798 

99 

24 

14 

356 

Ship  Prudent 

1799 

86 

24 

12 

214 

Ship  Margaret 

1800 

91 

27K 

14 

295 

Ship  America  (4th) 

1804 

114 

31 

15K 

473 

Ship  Francis 

1807 

96 

26K 

13 

297 

Ship  Glide 

1811 

973< 

2Q% 

13>^ 

306 

Ship  China 

1816 

107 

27K 

14 

370 

Ship  Emerald 

1823 

98K 

25 

12>^ 

271 

Ship  Rome 

1829 

116 

25>^ 

13 

344 

$8,625= 

Ship  Carthage 

1837 

130K 

27 

13 

426 

Bark  Europa 

1849 

121 

26 

18 

398 

$29,000 

Ship  Australia 

1849 

135 

29 

21 

534 

$8,000 

171  >_< 

34 

24 

911 

$52,000 

202 

40 

21 

1494 

202 

38>< 

24 

1396 

167 

35 

23 1 2 

1065 

$123,600= 

186 

37 

23 

1190 

$74,500= 

Name  Date     Length  Breadth  Depth  Tons         Cost 

Ship  Shirley  1850 
Ship  Witch-of-the-Wave  1851 

Ship  Aurora  1853 

Ship  Mindoro  1864 

Ship  Panay  1877 

*lncluding  outfits. 
**Purchased  1841. 


The  frigate  Essex,  the  largest  vessel  ever  built  in  Salem  was  860 
tons,  length  of  gun  deck  141  feet,  breadth  37  feet,  depth  of  hold  12 
feet. 

Regarding  the  rigs  of  vessels  much  confusion  exists.  Most 
persons  readily  recognize  the  ship,  the  bark  or  barque  and  the  schooner 
with  from  two  to  seven  masts,  but  the  older  rigs,  those  entirely  obsolete 
and  others  just  passing  out,  are  little  known,  —  the  ketch,  the  snow, 
the  topsail  schooner  and  the  three  forms  of  the  brig. 

"The  American  brig  is  a  two-masted  vessel  entirely  or  partly 
square  rigged.  There  are  three  classes  of  brigs; —  the  full-rigged 
brig,  the  brigantine  and  the  hermaphrodite  brig.  All  are  square 
rigged  on  the  foremast  (first  mast)  and  in  this  respect  they  are  all 
alike.  The  mainmast  (second  mast)  is  different  in  each  of  the  three 
classes  and  it  is  on  the  mainmast  where  the  distinctive  points  of  differ- 
ence are  found. 

"On  the  full-rigged  brig  both  masts  are  made  in  three  spars  and 
both  masts  are  square  rigged.  On  the  mainmast  there  is  a  standing 
gaff  to  which  is  rigged  a  small  fore-and-aft  sail.  In  other  respects 
both  masts  are  alike.     [See  Olinda  and  privateer  Grand  Turk.] 

"On  the  hermaphrodite  brig,  or  half  brig,  the  mainmast  is  made 
in  two  spars  and  carries  no  yards;  but  it  has  a  fore-and-aft,  or  hoist 
and  lower,  mainsail  and  a  gaff  topsail.  The  mainmast  is  made  and 
rigged  like  the  mainmast  of  the  ordinary  two  masted  schooner;  thus 
the  hermaphrodite  brig  may  be  said  to  be  half  brig  and  half  schooner. 
[See  Cleopatra's  Barge.] 


*'0n  the  brigantine  [see  Experiment  and  Sukey],  the  mainmast 
(second  mast)  is  also  made  in  two  spars  and  has  a  fore-and-aft,  or 
hoist  and  lower,  mainsail  and  is  like  the  mainmast  of  the  hermaphrodite 
brig;  but  the  brigantine  does  not  carry  a  gaff  topsail.  In  place  of 
the  gaff  topsail  there  are  two  and  often  three  yards  aloft  on  the  main- 
mast over  the  large  fore-and-aft  mainsail.  On  these  yards  are  carried 
a  square  main-top-sail  and,  in  the  case  of  three  main  yards,  a  main- 
top-gallantsail.  There  is  no  sail  carried  on  the  lower,  or  main  yard. 
These  are  small,  light  yards  and  are  rigged  and  handled  like  the  yards 
on  the  foremast.  The  brigantine  might  thus  be  considered  as  a 
compromise  between  the  full-rigged  brig  and  the  hermaphrodite 
brig,  and  at  a  distance  very  much  resembles  a  full-rigged  brig. 
The  small  main  yards,  or  jack-yards,  as  the  yards  carried  on 
the  brigantine's  mainmast  are  often  called,  are  in  reality  of  but 
little  use  and  are  of  more  or  less  trouble  and  in  many  cases  they 
have  been  taken  off  and  a  gaff  topsail  rigged  in  their  place.  In 
such  instances,  of  course,   the  brigantine  becomes  a  hermaphrodite 

brig. 

"The  full-rigged  brig  and  brigantine  are  entirely  obsolete  rigs 
and  probably  none  of  either  class  has  been  built  in  this  country 
within  the  past  sixty  or  seventy  years.  The  hermaphrodite  brig 
is  also  fast  becoming  obsolete  and  even  as  late  as  1916  but  four  brigs 
of  this  class  are  found  in  the  American  register. 

"The  topsail  schooner  is  a  two-masted  vessel  having  both  masts 
made  in  two  spars.  The  mainmast  has  a  fore-and-aft  mainsail  and 
gaff  topsail  the  same  as  the  ordinary  two  masted  schooner.  The 
lower  foremast  is  made  a  little  shorter  than  the  corresponding  spar 
of  the  mainmast  and  the  topmast  a  little  longer.  The  foresail  is  a 
fore-and-aft  sail  and  has  no  gaff  topsail;  but  aloft,  over  the  foresail, 
there  are  three  yards  on  which  are  carried  a  square  fore-topsail  and 
a  fore-topgallantsail.  There  is  no  sail  carried  on  the  lower,  or  fore 
yard.  The  foremast  and  the  sails  carried  on  it  are  exactly  like  the 
mainmast  of  a  brigantine."— Letter  of  Herbert  M.  C.  Skinner  of 
Fall  River.     [See  H.  H.  Cole  and  Baltick.] 


The  snow,  a  long  obsolete  rig,  closely  resembled  a  full-rigged 
brig,  the  difference  being  in  the  manner  in  which  the  fore-and-aft 
mainsail  was  rigged.  This  sail  was  set  from  a  small  spar  which 
stood  abaft  of  the  mainmast  and  very  close  to  it.  [See  description 
and  illustration  in  Falconer's  Marine  Dictionary,  editions,  1776 
and  1815.] 

The  ketch,  an  old  and  once  popular  rig,  was  a  two-masted  vessel 
which  might  be  described  as  a  bark  without  a  foremast.  The  main- 
mast, in  this  case  the  first  mast,  was  square  rigged  and  placed  abaft 
the  middle  of  the  deck.  In  old  navies  the  ketch  was  used  as  a  bomb 
vessel,  the  considerable  space  forward  being  favorable  for  working 
the  mortar.     [See  Falconer.] 

IMuch  altered  in  rig  and  the  setting  of  the  masts,  the  ketch  with 
a  fore-and-aft  rig  is  a  favorite  form  of  fishing  vessel  on  the  coast  of 
England.  The  ketch  in  some  ways  suggests  the  yawl,  but  the  second 
mast  of  the  yawl  is  smaller  and  generally  set  abaft  the  steering  wheel; 
the  yawl  rig  is  frequently  seen  on  yachts. 

As  to  the  privateer,  also,  there  seems  to  be  a  doubt  in  some  minds 
whether  it  is  a  vessel  with  a  special  rig  or  maybe  of  many  different 
ones.  A  privateer,  strictly  speaking,  is  an  armed  vessel  of  any  rig, 
privately  owned,  with  a  large  crew,  sent  out  under  a  government 
commission  for  the  especial  purpose  of  preying  upon  the  commerce 
and  vessels  of  an  enemy  nation.  A  "letter  of  marque,"  the  name 
often  applied  to  the  vessel  itself,  signifies  the  authority  given  from  a 
government  to  a  merchant  vessel  with  a  much  smaller  crew  to  be 
armed  and  equipped  for  similar  purposes  and  altho  primarily  on  a 
mercantile  voyage,  the  vessel  may  pick  up  such  prizes  as  come  in 
her  way.  The  term  privateer  is  commonly  used  for  both  classes  of 
vessels.  The  American  privateers  in  the  Revolutionary  War  and  in 
the  War  of  1812  were  often  owned  in  shares  for  which  the  people  of  a 
town  or  neighborhood  subscribed.  The  captured  vessels  and  cargoes 
were  condemned  under  law,  sold  and  the  money  divided  in  certain 
proportions  among  the  crew  of  the  privateer  and  the  owners;  in 
many    cases    a    very    profitable    transaction.     Privateering    differed 


from  piracy  in  the  commissioned  authority  from  the  government, 
the  bond  of  the  owners,  the  restriction  of  privateering  to  the  vessels 
of  the  enemy  and  the  exclusion  of  neutrals  from  attack.  Privateering 
practically  ceased  with  the  treaty  of  Paris  in  1856. 

Regarding  the  speed  of  ships:  In  April,  1775,  the  schooner  Quero 
of  Salem  was  chartered  by  the  State  Congress  to  take  the  American 
version  of  the  story  of  the  battle  of  Lexington  to  Benjamin  Franklin 
at  London.  The  Quero  left  Salem  on  April  29  in  ballast  and  arrived 
in  England  on  May  28,  making  the  passage  in  twenty-nine  days. 
The  British  official  dispatches  were  sent  on  the  Sukey,  a  vessel  of 
two  hundred  tons,  loaded.  She  started  from  Boston  on  April  24 
and  arrived  in  England  on  June  9,  the  Quero  beating  her,  including 
the  handicap,  by  seventeen  days. 

Mr.  Crowninshield  states  [E.  L  Hist.  Coll.  XXXVII,  76]  that 
the  privateer  America  was  under  favorable  circumstances  a  faster 
sailer  than  the  modern  yachts  Constellation,  Vigilant  or  Columbia. 
The  Americas  highest  speed  was  13  knots,  the  Vigilant  and  Columbia 
have  in  spurts  made  14  knots,  but  in  long  stretches  the  America  was 
the  fastest  vessel;  she  was  the  fastest  vessel  afloat  during  the  War 
of  1812.  It  is  also  interesting  to  compare  Cleopatra  s  Barge  with 
modern  yachts,  for  she  was  of  almost  precisely  the  same  dimensions  as 
the  yacht  Mayflower,  although  her  rig  was  as  different  as  may  possibly 
be  imagined.  In  a  moderate  breeze  Cleopatra  s  Barge  made  8  knots 
and  in  a  stiff  breeze  10  or  11  knots  as  shown  by  tests  made  by  log-line 
and  glass  and  by  a  "Gould's  patent  log." 

The  ship  George  of  Salem  made  the  passage  from  Salem  to  Cal- 
cutta in  89  days  and  from  Calcutta  to  Salem  in  95  days,  which  are 
thought  to  have  been  the  quickest  Calcutta  runs  to  and  from  any 
north  Atlantic  port.  It  is  stated  by  E.  P.  Collier  in  his  "Deep  Sea 
Captains  of  Cohasset"  that  Capt.  Philip  Fox  of  Cohasset  in  1819  made 
the  passage  from  Liverpool  to  Boston  in  the  ship  Herald  in  17  days 
and  in  1824,  in  the  ship  Emerald  in  17  days,  3  hours;  these  were 
record  passages  for  the  period  and  were  not  surpassed  until  the  clipper 
ships  occasionally  made  the  passage  in  13  to  16  days. 


Examination  of  early  log-books  at  the  Essex  Institute  indicates 
that,  in  ordinary  weather  and  winds,  the  old  ships  jogged  along  at 
about  six  to  eight  knots  and  in  strong  winds  and  gales  at  eight  to  ten 
knots.  A  record  of  150  to  200  miles  in  twenty-four  hours  is  a  common 
day's  run  and  from  230  to  240  miles  in  twenty-four  hours  not  unusual, 
but  a  figure  above  that  is  rarely  recorded.  About  220  miles  in  twenty- 
four  hours  appears  to  be  the  average  for  single  days  in  strong  winds, 
while,  of  course,  there  were  days  and  even  weeks  when  little  progress 
was  made.  With  the  clipper  ships  a  greatly  increased  rate  is  found,  — 
300,  312,  and  345  miles  in  twenty-four  hours  is  recorded  for  the  Dread- 
nought. Captain  Clark  in  "The  Clipper  Ship  Era"  says  that  the 
Atlantic  packet  ships  made  from  12  to  14  knots  under  most  favorable 
conditions,  making  the  passage  from  New  York  to  Liverpool  occasion- 
ally in  16  days,  but  they  "were  commanded  by  men  who  kept  them 
moving  night  and  day  in  all  sorts  of  weather."  The  clipper  ships 
of  1852  -  1855  made  the  New  York  -  Liverpool  passage  in  13  to  15 
days  under  very  favorable  conditions.  The  Lightning  of  2084  tons, 
built  in  1854  by  Donald  McKay  at  Boston,  once  made  "the  phenomenal 
run  of  436  miles  in  twenty-four  hours,  an  average  rate  of  18 ><  knots, 
which  entitles  the  Lightning  to  the  proud  distinction  of  being  the 
swiftest  ship  that  ever  sailed  the  seas.  There  was  no  ocean  steamship 
of  the  day  that  approached  her  record  by  less  than  100  miles  and 
another  twenty-five  years  passed  before  the  Atlantic  greyhound, 
the  Arizona,  made  18  knots  for  a  single  hour  on  her  trial  trip."  The 
James  Baines  once  made  420  miles  in  twenty- four  hours;  the  Flying 
Cloud  in  1851  made  a  run  of  374  miles  in  twenty-four  hours,  "the 
fastest  day's  run,  under  steam  or  sail  that  had  ever  been  made  up 
to  that  time.  She  sailed  a  distance  of  5912  miles,  an  average  of  227 
miles  per  day."  Records  may  be  multiplied  but  these  given  are 
sufficient  to  illustrate  the  difference  between  the  clippers  and  the 
old-time  ships  that  preceeded  them. 

Of  the  Salem  owned  clipper  ships,  the  Witchcraft,  William  C. 
Rogers,  commander,  in  1851  made  the  passage  from  New  York  to 
San  Francisco  in  103  days,  the  next  year  the  John  Bertram,  Capt. 


Frederick  Lendholm,  made  the  passage  from  Boston  to  San  Francisco 
in  105  days.  These  passages  compare  quite  favorably  with  the 
general  run  for  there  were  few  made  in  less  than  100  days  although 
the  fastest  of  all  were  made  in  89  days,  once  by  the  Andrew  Jackson 
and  twice  by  the  Flying  Cloud  of  which  Capt.  Josiah  Perkins  Creesy 
of  Marblehead  and  Salem  was  the  commander. 

Between  1836  and  1860  a  number  of  Salem  vessels  were  engaged 
in  the  whale  fishery,  including  the  ships  Elizabeth,  Sapphire,  Bengal 
and  the  barks  Reaper,  Statesman  and  Malay.  More  than  one  -  hundred 
thousand  gallons  of  whale  oil  were  landed  in  Salem  in  one  year  and 
over  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  in  value  of  sperm  oil.  Finally, 
however,  the  enterprise  did  not  prosper  and  at  the  opening  of  the 
Civil  War  whaling  from  Salem  ceased.  Whaling  was  also  conducted 
from  Lynn  but  the  industry  ended  at  the  time  the  railroad  bridge 
was  built  across  the  Saugus  river  in  1837  which  interfered  with  the 
landing  of  the  cargoes.  [See  "The  Whaling  Industry,"  Peabody 
Museum,  1908.] 

When  the  railroads  were  built  in  1838  to  1850  the  centers  of  trade 
were  changed,  Boston  took  the  commerce  from  Salem  and  to  a  certain 
extent  in  turn  surrendered  it  to  New  York.  Nor  were  the  great 
ships  of  later  years  able  to  enter  Salem  harbor,  as  the  depth  of  water 
did  not  permit  it.  The  change  had  been  coming,  however,  before 
this.  William  Gray  had  moved  his  commercial  activities  to  Boston, 
and  the  death  of  Joseph  Peabody  in  1844  removed  one  of  the  greatest 
commercial-marine  factors  in  the  community.  Changes  in  other 
ways  affected  the  foreign  trade  and  Salem  in  1850  had  become  the 
Salem  of  Hawthorne's  "Custom  House  Sketch"  in  his  introduction 
to  the  "Scarlet  Letter." 


The  lists  of  paintings  of  vessels,  rigged  models,  builder's  half-hull 
models,  portraits,  etc.,  are  arranged  alphabetically  under  their  respec- 
tive heads.  The  index  is  intended  to  cover  other  objects  and  matter 
in  the  descriptive  text.     Every  care  has  been  taken  to  make  the 


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references  correct,  altho  conflicting  evidence  has  been  found  regarding 
the  spelling  of  names,  dates  and  data  of  vessels.  It  is  not  possible 
to  avoid  some  errors  and  disagreements  among  authorities  may  appear. 
The  compiler  is  greatly  indebted  to  many  friends  who  have 
helped  him  gather  the  materials  for  this  hand-book  during  the  past 
twenty  years;  the  list  would  reach  hundreds  were  each  one's  name 
recorded,  so  he  can  only  thank  them  in  this  general  way,  which  he 
does  most  sincerely.  To  Prof.  Edward  S.  Morse  he  is  indebted 
for  reading  the  manuscript;  to  Mr.  Albert  P.  Morse  for  assistance 
in  preparing  the  manuscript  and  in  proof  reading,  and  to  Mr.  Law- 
rence W.  Jenkins  for  his  kindness  in  looking  up  many  references 
and,  especially,  for  his  great  assistance  in  putting  the  volume  thru 
the  press.  The  publication  of  the  hand-book  and  its  copious  illus- 
tration is  made  possible  thru  the  generosity  of  Mr.  Richard  Wheat- 
land, a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Peabody   Museum. 

John  Robinson. 

Salem,  April,  1921. 


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OIL  AND  WATER-COLOR    PAINTINGS  OF 
MERCHANT  VESSELS 


The   water-color  paintings  are  usually  about  26  x  18  inches,  the 
oils  a  little  larger,  unless  otherwise  stated. 

Abaellino,  hermaphrodite  brig,  privateer,  built  by  James  Ford 
at  Medford,  Mass.  for  John  Lee,  Jr.,  of  Boston,  1814,  145 
tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  an  original  water-color  painting 
by  George  Ropes  of  Salem,  inscribed,  —  "Abaellino  Escaping 
from  H.  B.  M.  Brig  Paulina  off  Sicily,  March  4,  1815." 

Abbot  Lawrence,  ship,  of  San  Francisco,  built  by  Donald  McKay 
at  Boston,  1855,  1516  tons. 

Painting  on  a  large  porcelain  cup. 

Aerial,  brigantine,  of  Salem,  built  at  Baltimore,  1844,  161  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  in  water-color  of  an  original  paint- 
ing in  oil. 

Alfred,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  David  Magoun  at  Salem,  1805, 
260  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  an  original  water-color  painting 
inscribed,  —  "Alfred,  Joseph  Felt  Master  going  out  of  Mar- 
seilles October  6,  1806"  and  signed,  —  "Nicolai  Carmillieri 
1807."  The  Alfred  was  altered  to  217  tons  for  a  privateer 
in  1812,  mounted  16  guns,  and  carried  100  men;  she  was 
captured  by  the  British  in  1814.  Referred  to  incorrectly 
as  a  brig  by  Maclay,  American  Privateers,  p.  411. 


America  (3d),  ship,  of  Salem,  built  in  France,  6o4  tons. 

Water-color  painting  about  1799,  inscribed,  —  "America 
Commanded  by  Capt.  Webb"  and  signed,  —  "M.  C[Orne] 
P[inxit]  in  Salem."  Originally  the  ship  Blonde  of  the  French 
Navy,  purchased  by  the  Crowninshields  in  1798  and  sold 
back  to  the  French  Navy  in  1802.  No  other  vessel  so  large 
as  this  was  owned  in  Salem  until  1839. 

America    (4th),    ship,   of  Salem,    built  by  Retire  Becket  at    Salem 
in  1804,  473  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  water-color  by  Anton  Roux 
at  Marseilles  in  1806,  showing  the  America  as  a  merchantman. 

America  (4th),  cut  down  and  altered  to  331   tons  in   1812  and  as 
a  privateer,  mounted  16  guns  and  carried  110  men. 

Oil  painting  inscribed,  —  "America  in  chase  of  His  B.  M. 
Packet  Princess  Elizabeth"  and  signed,  —  "George  Ropes 
1815."  C  Also,  an  oil  painting,  probably  by  George  Ropes, 
similar  to  the  last  but  larger,  possibly  made  for  a  fire-board, 
inscribed, —  "America  Salem."  C.  Also,  in  large  painting 
of  Crowninshield's  Wharf  by  George  Ropes  in  1806.  C  Also, 
a  fine,  full  rigged  contemporary  model,  two  feet  long,  with 
"America"  on  the  stern. 

Ann  Maria,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Essex,  Mass.,  1843,  489  tons. 
Oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist. 

Active,   brig,   of  Salem,   built  at   Ipswich,   Mass.,   1822,   211   tons. 
Altered  to  a  bark  1833. 

Pencil  sketch  inscribed, —  "  Bark  Active  at  Loanda,"  from 
a  personal  memorandum  book  of  Capt.  John  Phillips. 

Arabia,  ship,   of  Boston,  built  at  Kennebunk,  Maine,   1863,   1034 
tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  a  painting  on  a  cup  by  C.  Kap- 
panf,  Hamburg. 


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The  earliest  picture  cf  a  Salem  vessel. 


SHIP  -AMERICA"  [3d]  OF  SALEM 
Tlie  largest  Salem-owned  vessel  until  1839.    Painting  by  M.  F.  Come.   1799. 


The  Arabia  was  commanded  by  Capt.  Thomas  Fuller  of 
Salem.  A  ship  Arabia  was  built  at  Brunswick,  Maine,  1852, 
1273  tons. 

Araeomedes,  schooner,  pilot  boat,  of  Salem,  built  by  Ladd  and  Piper 
at  Newburyport,  1854. 

Pencil  drawing,  1854,  probably  by  Henry  Whipple. 

Arbella,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Bath,  Maine,  1825,  404  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  water-color  painting 
done  at  Copenhagen  showing  the  vessel  passing  Elsinore  Castle. 

Areatus,  ship,  of  Boston,  built  at  Bristol,  Maine,  1837,  548  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  inscribed, —"Areatus, 
C.  D.  Mugford,  arriving  at  Whampoa,  March  8,  1845." 
H  Also,  a  water-color  sketch  by  Capt.  Mugford  inscribed,  — 
"Ship  Areatus  in  a  Typhon  at  Laguimanoc"  [Luzon,  Phil- 
ippines]. Abandoned  at  sea  in  sinking  condition,  June  29, 
1850. 

AURELIA,  bark,  of  Boston,  built  by  Thatcher  Magoun  at  Medford, 
Mass.,  1833. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Aurelia  of  Boston"  and 
signed, —  "Felice  Polli,  Triest."  The  Amelia  was  com- 
manded by  Capt.  Jones  Very  of  Salem. 

AURORA,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  John  Taylor  at  Chelsea,  1853,  1396 
tons. 

Large  oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist.  C  Also,  builder's 
half-hull  model. 

Aurora,  sloop  yacht. 

Small  oil  painting  by  W.  P.  Parker.  Owned  as  Rambler 
by  Henry  W.  Peabody  of  Salem;  sold,  1879,  to  W.  P.  Parker, 
William  Perry  and  Edw.  S.  Weston  and  renamed  Aurora. 


Australia,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Hayden  and  Cudworth  at  Med- 
ford,  Mass.,  1849,  534  tons.  It  cost  Stone,  Silsbee  &  Pickman 
of  Salem  $38,500. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Ship  Australia  of  Salem, 
Nathl.  J.  Kinsman  Commander,  entering  the  New  Harbor  of 
Marseilles,  June,  1857."     C.  Also,  builder's  half-hull  model. 

Baltick,  topsail  schooner,  of  Salem,  1765,  owned  and  commanded 
by  Capt.  Edward  Allen.     [See  Painted  Portraits.] 

Three  water-color  paintings  inscribed,  —  "This  shews  the 
schooner  Baltick  coming  out  of  St.  Eustacia  y  16th.  of 
Nov.  1765".  d  Also,  a  copy  of  this  by  Ross  Turner,  1893. 
C"This  shews  the  schooner  Baltick  in  distress  in  6  fathoms 
of  Water  at  Nantucket  Sholes  with  everything  wash'd  of  the 
Decks  &  Two  men  Drounded  y«  19th.  of  Dec."  [1765]. 
CL  "This  shews  the  schooner  Baltick  On  the  Middle  Ground 
going  into  Cape  Fare  in  a  Very  hard  Gale  of  Wind  with  the 
Pilot  boat  beating  out  to  Her.  Feb'y  16th.  1766."  These  are 
the  oldest  pictures  known  to  exist  of  any  Salem  ship. 

Belisarius,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Enos  Briggs  at  Salem,  1794, 
261  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  water-color  painting 
by  M.  Corne.  The  Belisarius  was  owned  by  the  Crownin- 
shields  and  on  her  first  voyage  in  1794  was  commanded  by 
George  Crowninshield,  Jr.,  later  the  owner  of  the  yacht  Cleo- 
patra's Barge.  She  was  afterwards  commanded  by  Benj. 
Crowninshield  who  was  captain  of  the  Barge  in  her  voyage  to 
the  Mediterranean  in  1817. 

Benjamin  Howard,  ship,  built  at  Camden,  Maine,  1857,  650  tons. 
Oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist,  about  1860. 

BONETTA,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Duxbury,  Mass.,  1800,  227  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  water-color  inscribed,  — 
"Ship  Bonetta  of  Salem  departing  from  Leghorn." 

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SHIP  "CHARLEMAGNE"  OF  NEW  YORK.  ADDISON  RICHARDSON,  MASTER 
Painting  by  Frederic  Roux,   1828. 


SHIP  -CYGNET'  OF  SALEM,   1822 
Painting  by  Anton  Roux,  Jr.,  1824 


Borneo,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Jenks  and  Hoyt  at  Salem,  1831,  297 
tons.  Purchased  by  Silsbee,  Pickman  &  Stone  of  Salem, 
1847,  for  $9,000. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Ship  Borneo  of  Salem, 
Captain  B.  R.  Peabody."  Altered  to  a  bark;  abandoned  in 
the  North  Atlantic,  Jan.  1,  1854. 

Brenda,  topsail  schooner,  of  Boston,  built  by  George  Raynes  at 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  1851,  300  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  at  Whampoa.  An  "opium 
clipper,"  owned  by  J.  M.  Forbes  and  others.  Said  to  have 
gone  out  with  a  peculiar  rig  which  was  altered  after  reaching 
China. 


Brookline,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Thatcher  Magoun  at  Medford, 
Mass.,  1831,  349  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  water-color  painting. 
The  Brookline  became  a  whaler  and  was  broken  up  at  Buenos 
Ayres  in  1861. 

Brutus,  ship,  of  Salem  [with  Volusia  and  Ulysses  1st];  built  by  Retire 
Becket  at  Salem,  1797,  303  tons. 

Three  oil  paintings  by  M.  Corne,  with  long  inscriptions, 
showing  the  vessels  sailing  from  Salem,  Feb.  22,  1802,  and 
being  wrecked  on  Cape  Cod  the  following  night.  [See  Volusia 
and   Ulysses.] 

Buck,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Bucksport,  Maine,  1822,  217  tons. 
Water-color  sketch. 

Cadmus,  ship,  of  Boston,  built  by  Thatcher  Magoun  at  Medford, 
Mass.,  1816. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  — "Cadmus.  Captn.  Samuel 
Ives"  and  signed,  —  "Ant.  Roux  a  Marseille,  1822." 

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Cambrian,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Salem,  1818,  196  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  water-color  painting 
inscribed,  —  "Cambrian"  and  signed,  —  "Frederic  Roux  a 
Marseille  1826." 


Camel,  brig,  of  Salem,  117  tons.     Captured  from  the  British  in  the 
War  of  1812. 

Oil  painting  by  Charles  Torrey  of  Brookline,  Mass.,  1919, 
based  on  the  full  rigged  model  by  Daniel  C.  Becket  in  the 
collection. 

Catherine,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  at  Cohasset,  1840,  226  tons. 

Ten  small,  carefully  drawn  pencil  sketches  in  circles,  by 
John  Reed,  showing  incidents  of  a  passage  of  the  bark  from 
Loanda  to  the  United  States. 


Carthage,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Jenks  and  Hoyt  at  Salem,  1837, 
426  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  in  water-color    of  original   in   oil 
by  Clement  Drew  of  Boston,  1844. 


Centurion,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  1822,  205  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed, —  "  Brig  Centurion  of  Salem, 
Aaron  Williams  Master,  passing  Elsinore  Castle,  March  27, 
1825,  towards  Copenhagen." 

Chalcedony,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  bv  George  Fuller  at  Medford,  Mass., 
1825,  214  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  Benjamin  F.  West  of  Salem. 

Charlemagne,  ship,  of  New  York,  built  1828. 

Three  water-color  paintings:  C.  under  full  sail  inscribed, — 
"Charlemagne  Captn.  Richardson"  and  signed,  —  "Frederic 
Roux    a    Paris    en    1828."     C.  in    a    gale,  —  "Charlemagne, 


YACHT  -CLEOPATRA'S  BARGE"  OF  SALEM,   1816 
Painting  by  A.  Vittaluga,   1817. 


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BARK     ELIZA"  OF  SALEM,  182,3 

Sailed  for  California  with  a  party  of  gold-seekers,  December,  1848. 

Painting  by  Benjamin  F.  West. 


Capt.  Addison  Richardson,  April  11,  1836"  and  signed,— 
"Frederic  Roux  a  Havre  1836."  C.  dismasted,  —  "Charle- 
magne, Captn.  A.  Richardson,  January  8,  1838"  and  signed,— 
"Frederic  Roux  a  Havre  1838."  The  back  of  each  painting 
is  inscribed,  —  "Frederic  Roux  hydrographe  &  peintre  de 
Marine  pitit  quai  Notre  Dame,  No.  13,  Havre  en  1828",  "  1836" 
and  "1838"  respectively.  These  paintings,  together  with 
several  nautical  instruments  and  other  souvenirs  and  docu- 
ments were  given  the  Peabody  Museum  as  a  memorial  of  her 
husband,  Edward  Richardson,  Esq.,  son  of  Captain  Addison 
Richardson,  by  Mrs.  Kate  S.  Richardson  of  New  York  City. 
Captain  Addison  Richardson  was  born  in  Salem,  the  son  of 
Captain  William  Richardson,  a  founder  of  the  Salem  East  India 
Marine  Society  in  1799. 

Charlotte,  ship.  (A  ship  Charlotte,  390  tons,  was  built  at  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H.  in  1832,  and  another  at  Medford,  1837,  of 
541  tons.) 

Oil  painting  about  1840. 

China,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Enos  Briggs  at  Salem,  1816,  370  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  after  original  water-color  painting 
inscribed,  —  "China  of  Salem  Hiram  Putnam  [Master]"  and 
signed,  —  "Gueissippi." 

Clarissa,  ship,  of  Boston. 

Water-color  painting  signed,  —  "Jan  Mooy,  1822."  "Clar- 
issa Boston  "  on  the  stern.  <[  Also,  another  signed,— "  J.  Mooy, 
1818,"  and  inscribed,  —  "Henry  King  Commander,"  varnished 
and  discolored.    Capt.  Henry  King  was  of  Salem. 


Claudius,  ship,  of  Boston,  built  by  P.  and  J.  O.  Curtis  at  Medford, 
Mass.,  1836. 

Water-color  painting,  small,  with  the  sails  cut  from  card- 
board, a  very  unusual  method.  "Claudius"  on  bow.  The 
Claudius  was  commanded  by  Capt.  John  J.  Scobie  of  Salem. 


Cleopatra's  Barge,  hermaphrodite  brig,  [yacht],  of  Salem,  built 
by  Retire  Becket  at  Salem  for  George  Crowninshield,  1816, 
191  tons. 

Two  water-color  paintings:  C.  starboard  side  painted  in 
stripes,  inscribed,  —  "Tire  del  original  par  A.  Vittaluga  T. 
dis.  et  peintre  a  Genoa";  C.  port  side  painted  in  herringbone 
pattern,  —  "Delline  par  Antoine  Vittaluga  Tungen  peintre  a 
Tire  del  original."  Both  paintings  inscribed,  —  "Cleopatra's 
Barge  of  Salem."  [For  account  of  this  famous  yacht  see  under 
Crowninshield,  B.  W.  and  F.  B.  in  References.] 

In  the  summer  of  1916  a  special  loan  exhibition  was  held  at  the  Peabody  Muse- 
um celebrating  the  100th  anniversary  of  the  building  of  the  Cleopatra's  Barge  in  Salem. 
A  marvellous  collection  of  relics  was  brought  together.  —  portraits,  miniatures,  docu- 
ments, jewelry,  silverware,  souvenirs  of  the  Mediterranean  voyage  in  1817  and  ship 
paintings,  an  illustrated  catalog  of  which  was  printed.  Many  of  the  relics  remain 
in  the  museum  collection  including  paintings  of  the  vessel,  sea  journals,  Capt.  George 
Crowninshield 's  cane.  Napoleon's  boots,  official  documents  of  the  voyage,  etc. 

Congress,  ship,  of  Boston,  built  at  Belfast,  IVIaine,  1859,  979  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  at  Whampoa,  with  other 
vessels. 

COROMANDEL,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  by  Enos  Briggs  at  Salem,  1810, 
315  tons. 

A  small,  contemporary  water-color  painting. 


Cynthia,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  1833,  374  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  in  water-color  of  original  in  oil  by 
Sunqua,  a  Chinese  artist  at  Lintin,  1838.  C.  Also,  builder's 
half-hull  model. 


Cygnet,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Salem,  1822,  215  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Cygnet  of  Salem,  Samuel 
Kennedy  Commander"  and  signed,  —  "Anthony  Roux,  the 
Son,  at  IVIarseilles,  1824."  This  is  the  only  instance  of  a 
Roux  painting  in  the  collection  signed  by  the  artist  in  EngUsh. 


SHIP  "ELIZA  ADAMS"  OF  NEW  BEDFORD.   1853 
"Cutting  in  a  Whale."     Painting  by  C.  S.  Raleigh. 


U.  S.    FRIG.\TE    -ESSEX"  1799 
The  largest  vessel  ever  built  in  Salem.      Painting  by  Joseph  Howard. 


Derby,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  John  Taylor  at  Chelsea,  1855,  1062 
tons. 

Large  oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist.  <L  Also,  builder's 
half-hull  model.  The  Sumatra  of  Salem  was  built  from  the 
same  model. 

DiOMEDE,  hermaphrodite  brig,  of  Salem,  built  by  Retire  Becket  at 
Salem,  1809,  223  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  a  water-color  painting  by  George 
Lee  from  original  in  a  log-book. 

Dragon,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  at  Newbury,  Mass.,  1850,  289  tons. 

Oil  painting  probably  by  Benjamin  F.  West  of  Salem. 
C  Also,  another  oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist.  The  Dragon, 
Capt.  Thomas  C.  Dunn,  owned  by  Benjamin  A.  West,  1858, 
was  the  last  vessel  to  enter  Salem  from  Manila. 

Eben  Preble,  ship. 

Water-color  painting,  10  x  7  inches,  probably  by  Eustis 
Bacon,  in  a  log  book  of  a  voyage  of  the  ship,  "Franklin  Hallet, 
Master,  Boston  to  Manila,  July  21,  1840,  to  August  23,  1841, 
kept  by  Eustis  Bacon." 

Edward  Koppisch,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  at  Newbury  Mass.,  1845, 
249  tons. 
Oil  painting  by  Benjamin  F.  West  of  Salem,  about  1854. 

Eliza,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  1817,  262  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Ship  EHza  of  Salem, 
William  Osgood  Master,  going  out  of  Leghorn  to  Indie  1829." 
C  Also,  copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  a  different  painting. 
C  Also,  two  oil  paintings  on  boards,  about  1830.  C  Also, 
an  oil  painting  of,  —  "The  distressed  situation  of  the  ship 
Eliza  in  a  typhoon  in  the  Gulph  of  Japan."     This  painting Js 

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dark  and  its  identification  with  the  Salem  vessel  is  doubtful. 
The  Eliza  was  altered  to  a  bark  and  became  a  whaler  in  1838. 

Eliza,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  at  Salem,  1823,  240  tons. 

Oil  painting,  probably  by  Benjamin  F.  West  of  Salem, 
inscribed,  —  "Eliza  Salem."  C.  Also,  a  copy  in  water-color 
by  Ross  Turner,  1893.  C.  Also,  a  pencil  sketch  with  flags 
in  colors.  This  vessel  took  a  party  of  adventurers  from 
Salem  to  California,  sailing  in  December,  1848. 

Eliza  Adams,  ship,  whaler,  of  New  Bedford,  built  at  Fairhaven, 
1835,  403  tons. 

Large  oil  painting  showing  the  ship  cutting  in  a  whale, 
signed,  ^  "C.  S.  Raleigh." 

Eliza  Ann,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Baltimore,  1835,  370  tons.  Pur- 
chased by  Stone,  Silsbee  &  Pickman  of  Salem,  1840,  for 
$18,000. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Ship  Eliza  Ann  of  Salem, 
A.  A.  Burwell  Master,  entering  Havre,  1838."  C.  Also,  oil 
painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  at  Whampoa,  depicting  the  res- 
cue of  the  crew  of  a  wrecked  Chinese  junk,  November,  1845. 
C  Also,  small  oil  painting  signed,  —  "E.  A.  Taylor,  1844." 

Elizabeth,  hermaphrodite  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Essex,  Mass., 
1842,  185  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Elizabeth  of  Salem  Com- 
manded by  Peter  Lassen  entering  Malta  Harbor,  Nov.  12, 
1862."     The  Elizabeth  was  rebuilt  in  Salem,  1859. 

Elizabeth,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Boston,  1827,  397  tons. 

Water-color  painting  by  M.  Macpherson  from  original 
engraved  on  a  whale's  tooth.  A  whaler,  1836  - 1848.  She 
sailed  from  Salem  April  3,  1849,  taking  a  party  of  gold-seekers 
to  California  and  was  sold  there. 


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Emerald,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Elijah  Briggs  at  Salem,  1823,  271 
tons.     Altered  to  a  bark  in  1826  and  became  a  whaler. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  in  water-color  of  an  oil  painting 
by  George  M.  White. 


Empress-of-the-Seas,  clipper  ship,  of  Baltimore,  built  by  Donald 
McKay  at  Boston,  1853,  2200  tons. 

Pencil  drawing  by  Charles  E.  Bateman.     d  Also,  another 
drawing  by  him  but  not  marked. 


Emigrant,  ship. 

In  a  large  oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  at  Whampoa, 
about  1855  -  1860,  with  ship  Troubadour.  These  ships  were 
fitted  for  carrying  coolies  to  Chile. 

Erin,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  New  York,  1810,  270  tons. 

Water-color  painting  signed,  — " Montardier  du  Havre"; 
"Erin  of  Salem"  on  stern. 


Essex,  U.  S.  frigate,  built  by  Enos  Briggs  at  Salem,  on  Winter  Island, 
1799,  860  tons. 

Water-color  painting,  signed  at  top,  —  "Frigate  Essex  of 
32  [guns]  Joseph  Howard."  CL  Also,  a  carefully  drawn  water- 
color  sketch  on  paper  water-marked  1804.  <[  Also,  an  oil 
painting  by  George  Ropes  of  Salem,  1815,  representing  the 
capture  of  the  Essex  at  Valparaiso,  1814.  The  Essex  was  the 
largest  ship  ever  built  in  Salem.  [For  accounts  of  the  Essex, 
see  Preble  and  Streeter  in  References.! 


Eunice,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Barnstable,  1803,  145  tons. 

Water-color  painting,  an  undoubted  replica  of  another, 
privately  owned,  signed,  —  "Antne  Roux  a  Marseille,  1806," 
representing    a    vessel,    surrounded    by    barrel-like    planking, 

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being  rolled  into  the  water.  A  family  tradition  says  that  it 
represents  the  Eunice  undergoing  repairs  at  St.  Paul  Island 
in  the  Indian  Ocean,  which,  however,  took  place  in  1817. 
The  two  paintings  vary  slightly  as  would  be  the  case  where 
an  artist  duplicated  his  own  work.  The  paintings  are  very 
interesting  and  unexplained.  C  Also,  copy  by  M.  Macpherson 
of  the  signed  painting.  The  painting  owned  by  the  museum  is 
not  signed. 

Excelsior,  schooner,  built  by  Ladd  and  Piper  at  Newburyport,  1848. 

Two  similar  oil  paintings,  each  inscribed,  —  "Excelsior 
Salem."  The  Excelsior  was  for  a  long  time  the  Custom  House 
and  Pilot  boat  at  Salem.  The  tiller  of  the  Excelsior  is  in  the 
Marine  Room  collection. 

Experiment,  brigantine,  of  Newburyport,  built  at  Amesburv,  Mass., 
1803,  114  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Brig  Experiment  of  New- 
bury Port  Capt.  Joseph  Browon  [Brown]  Goingout  of  Mar- 
seilles" and  signed,  —  "Nicolay  Carmillieri,  1807." 

Fame,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Retire  Becket  at  Salem,  1802,  363 
tons. 

Large  oil  painting  [at  Essex  Institute]  by  George  Ropes  of 
Salem,  1802,  showing  the  launching  of  the  ship.  C.  Also, 
shown  in  the  large  painting  by  George  Ropes,  1806,  of  Crownin- 
shield's  Wharf,  a  copy  of  which  by  M.  Macpherson  is  in  the 
Marine  Room  collection. 

Fame,  topsail  schooner,  of  Salem,  built  at   Ipswich,  Mass.,  1795,  62 
tons. 

Oil  painting  by  Charles  Torrey  of  Brookline,  Mass.,  1920, 
from  original  water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Fame  of 
Salem"  with  "T.  A."  in  circle  and  signed  "William  Ward 
Delin  Anno  1800."  A  most  interesting  rig;  also  showing 
crew  wearing  tall  hats  and  their  hair  done  up  in  queues.  There 
was  another  schooner  Fame  of  87  tons  but  not  registered  in 
Salem  until  1804. 

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BRIGANTINE    "EXPERIMENT-    OF    NEWBURYPORT 

Painting  by  Nicolai  Carmillieri,  Marseilles,  1807. 


BRIG    "EUNICE"    OF   SALEM    AT   ST.    PAUL'S    ISLAND.    INDIAN    OCEAN 
Painting  by  Antcn  Roux.  Marseilles,  1806. 


Fanny,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Freeport,  Maine,  1796,  150  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  water-color  painting 
inscribed,  —  "The  Fanny  of  Salem  Commanded  by  Capt. 
Kinsman"  and  signed,  —  "M.  C[orne].  P[inxit].  1801." 
C  Also,  an  oil  painting  by  Charles  Torrey  of  Brookline,  1919, 
from  original  painting.  The  Fanny  was  a  privateer  in  1799 
mounting  ten  guns,  and  again  in  the  War  of  1812. 

Formosa,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  John  Taylor  at  Boston,  1868,  1252 
tons.     It  cost  Pickman,  Silsbee  &  Allen  of  Salem  $113,350.84. 

Large  oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist.  C.  Also,  a 
smaller  oil  painting.  The  Formosa  was  lost  on  the  coast  of 
Java  in  1880. 

Francis,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Enos  Briggs  at  Salem,  1807,  279 
tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Ship  Francis  of  Salem, 
A  Haraden  Master"  and  signed,  —  "Anton  Roux  a  Marseille, 
1816."  The  Francis  was  seized  at  Naples  in  1810  and  bought 
back  from  the  Neapolitan  government  by  the  American  Consul 
to  bring  home  the  crews  of  confiscated  American  vessels.  She 
arrived  in  Salem  in  August,  1810,  with  214  persons  on  board, 
many  of  whom  belonged  in  Salem.  The  value  of  Salem  vessels 
and  cargoes  confiscated  at  Naples  at  the  time  reached  the  large 
sum  of  $783,000. 

Franklin,  ship,  of  Boston. 

Water-color  by  M,  Macpherson,  copy  of  original  inscribed,  — 
"Sch'p  Francklin"  and,  on  the  back  in  pencil  in  the  handwriting 
of  Joseph  Linton  Waters  of  Salem, —  "Ship  Franklin,  James 
Devereux,  Commander,  of  Salem,  Massachusetts,  was  char- 
tered by  the  Dutch  East  India  Company  at  Batavia  for  a 
voyage  to  Japan  in  1798  [1799],  being  the  first  American  ship 
and  American  Captain  which  ever  entered  a  Japanese  port. 
[This  last  statement  is  incorrect  as  recent  investigation  shows; 
see  below.]  This  picture  was  painted  in  Japan  by  a  Dutch 
artist.     8   Pleasant   St.,   Salem,   April   12,    1878."     It   seems, 

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however,  that  "Captain  Kendrick  of  the  sloop  Lady  Washing- 
ton, which  accompanied  the  ship  Columbia  as  far  as  China  on 
her  first  voyage  around  the  world  and  remained  in  eastern 
waters,  entered  a  harbor  of  Japan  in  1791  and  displayed  the 
American  flag  there.  His  endeavor  to  trade  with  the  Japanese 
was  unsuccessful."  [Hoskin's  Narrative  (manuscript),  Mass. 
Hist.  Soc;  letter  S.  E.  Morison,  1920.]  The  ship  Eliza  of 
New  York,  Capt.  Stuart  (?)  was  chartered  at  Batavia  by  the 
Dutch  East  India  Company  in  1797  for  the  annual  trading 
voyage  to  Japan  and  ran  ashore  in  Nagasaki  harbor,  November 
17,  1798.  "Fortunately  she  was  refloated  by  the  help  of 
hundreds  of  fishersboats,  which  were  thanked  by  the  Captain 
with  the  present  of  twenty  bags  of  sugar  on  board."  [Com- 
munication of  Prof.  H.  Yamasaki  thru  Leland  H.  Cole,  Esq., 
accompanied  by  a  photograph  of  a  contemporary  painting 
by  Yushi  Ishizaki  of  the  rescue  of  the  Eliza,  together  with 
photographs  of  other  Japanese  paintings  and  charts  showing 
American  and  Dutch  vessels  in  Nagasaki  harbor  in  1802  and 
earlier.]  The  ship  Massachusetts  of  Boston  was  chartered  by 
the  D.  E.  I.  Co.  for  the  Japanese  trading  voyage  in  1800, 
William  Cleveland  of  Salem  being  the  clerk;  the  ship  Margaret 
of  Salem,  Captain  Samuel  Derby,  was  chartered  in  1801.  An 
admirable  account  of  these  early  voyages  to  Japan,  together 
with  extracts  from  William  Cleveland's  journal,  the  original 
of  which  is  in  the  Marine  Room  collection,  will  be  found  in 
Ralph  D.  Paine's  Ships  and  Sailors  of  Old  Salem,  pp.  330- 
375.  There  were  two  ships  Franklin  each  in  turn  commanded 
by  Captain  James  Devereux  of  Salem.  The  Salem  Ship 
Register  assigns  the  picture  to  the  Salem  ship  which,  however, 
was  not  built  until  1800. 

Frederick  Billings,  four-masted  bark,  built  by  Carleton  Norwood 
&  Co.  at  Rockport,  Maine,  1855,  2497  tons. 

Large  oil  painting  signed, —  "F.   A.  Morse,"   showing  the 
bark  leaving  Havre,  1885. 

Fredonia,   ship,  of  Newburyport,   built  at  Newbury,  Mass.,   1827, 
406  tons. 

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Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Ship  Fredonia  of  New- 
bury port,  George  Lunt,  Master,  enterin  Havre,  Jany.  27, 
1830." 

Friendship,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Enos  Briggs  at  Salem,  1797,  342 
tons. 

Water-color  painting  of  early  date.  <L  Also,  copy  of  it  by 
Ross  Turner,  1893.  C.  Also,  another  water-color  signed,  — 
"W.  Ward,  1799."  d  Also,  a  full-rigged  model,  nine  feet  long 
and  as  high,  made  in  1803,  [See  Rigged  Models].  The  Friend- 
ship was  captured  by  the  British  in  the  War  of  1812. 

Friendship  (2dj,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Portland,  Maine,  1815,  366 
tons. 

Painting  in  colors  on  a  plate  by  a  Chinese  artist  at  Canton 
about  1820.  While  at  Quallah  Battoo  on  the  Sumatra  coast, 
February  7,  1831,  the  Friendship  was  attacked  by  Malays,  five 
men  killed  and  the  ship  captured.  Later,  with  help  from  other 
vessels,  she  was  recaptured  and  returned  to  Salem.  On  receiving 
information  of  the  event,  the  U.  S.  government  sent  out  the 
frigate  Potomac  and  punishment  was  accorded  the  Malays  by 
the  destruction  of  Quallah  Battoo.  [See  E.  I.  Hist.  Coll.,  I, 
p.  15.  Reynolds,  Journal  of  a  Voyage  around  the  World,  Chaps. 
Vl-Vni,  with  picture  of  the  destruction  of  Quallah  Battoo.] 
The  Friendship  was  sold  in  1831  to  Fairhaven  owners  and 
became  a  whaler. 

Garland,  hermaphrodite  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at   Baltimore,  1847, 
148  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  in  water-color  of  original  in  oil 
by  a  Chinese  artist.  C  Also,  one  in  oil  showing  the  brig  in 
a  gale. 

Gazelle,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Charlestown,  Mass.,  1826,  197  tons. 

Copy  in  water-color  of  original  in  oil  by  Benjamin  F. 
West  of  Salem. 


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General  Meade,  U.  S.  transport  (formerly  S.  S.  City  of  Berlin). 

Large  water-color  painting  by  Ross  Turner  showing  the 
embarkation  of  the  Eighth  Massachusetts  Regiment  at  Matan- 
zas,  Cuba,  on  its  return  to  the  United  States,  April,  1899. 

George,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Salem,  1814,  328  tons. 

Five  water-color  paintings  by  Edmund  Stone,  a  member 
of  the  ship's  crew.  One  is  inscribed  "American  ship  George 
leaving  Sand  Heads,  Calcutta,  bound  to  Salem,  December  28, 
1820";  pilot  brigs  Flora,  Eliza,  Sea- Horse  and  Philip  at 
right,  the  bow  of  the  English  ship  Partridge  at  left.  €[  Another, 
similar,  but  without  inscription.  €[  Another,  showing  the 
George  off  Baker's  Island,  Salem.  C.  Another,  probably 
passing  out  of  Salem  harbor,  d  Also,  copy  of  an  original 
owned  by  George  H.  Allen.  The  George  was  built  by  an  asso- 
ciation of  ship-carpenters  thrown  out  of  work  by  the  War  of 
1812  and  was  intended  for  a  privateer,  but  the  war  ending 
she  was  sold  to  Joseph  Peabody  for  the  merchant  service. 
The  George  was  one  of  the  most  famous  vessels  in  the  Salem 
merchant  service.  Between  1815  and  1837  she  made  twenty- 
one  voyages  to  Calcutta  with  the  regularity  of  a  packet  ship 
and  some  idea  may  be  formed  of  the  character  of  the  men 
who  made  up  her  crew  when,  of  those  who  began  service  in 
the  George  as  boys,  thirty-five  became  ship-masters,  twenty 
chief  mates  and  six  second  mates. 

George,  schooner,  of  Salem,  built  at  Prospect,  Maine,  1831,  68  tons. 
Small  oil  painting  by  William  Henry  Luscomb  of  Salem. 

Glide,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Enos  Briggs  at  Salem,  1811,  306  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  water-color  painting 
inscribed,  —  "Glide  Salem"  and  signed,  —  "Anton  Roux  fils 
aine  a  Marseille  1823".  C.  Also,  copy  of  original  in  oil 
inscribed, —  "Painted  by  G.  Ropes  [of  Salem]  1812." 
The  ship  Glide  was  lost  at  the  Fiji  Islands  in  1832.  There  is 
in  the  collection  a  manuscript  journal  kept  by  William  Endi- 
cott,  third  officer  of  the  ship,  from  1829  until  1832. 

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SHIP    -'HERCULES"    OF    SALEM 
Painted  at  Naples.  1809. 


BRIG    "GRAND    TURK"   OF  SALEM   SALUTING    MARSEILLES 
Painting  by  Anton  Roux,  1815. 


Glide,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  by  E.  F.  Miller  at  Salem,  1861,  595  tons. 

Large  oil  painting  by  W.  P.  Stubbs  of  Boston.  C  Also, 
builder's  half-hull  model.  The  last  vessel  to  enter  Salem  from 
beyond  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  May  1,  1870. 


Golden  West,  ship,  built  by  Paul  Curtis  at  Boston,  1852,  1443  tons. 

Large  oil  painting  signed,  —  "Smith,  1857,"  with  steamboat 
Ceres  and  pilot  boat  11.  C  Also,  builder's  half-hull  model. 
The  Golden  West  was  commanded  by  Capt.  Samuel  R.  Curwen 
of  Salem. 

Governor  Endicott,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Enos  Briggs  at  Salem, 
1819,  297  tons.  Altered  to  a  brig  in  1823  and  again  to  a  bark 
in  1836. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Brig  Governor  Endi- 
cott of  Salem,  Harvey  C.  Mackay  Commander  off  the  Port 
of  Leghorn." 

Grand  Turk,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  on  the  South  Shore,  Mass.,  for  a 
privateer,  1781,  300  tons. 

Painting  on  the  sides  and  in  the  center  of  a  large  porcelain 
punch-bowl  brought  from  Canton,  China,  by  the  ship,  inscribed, 
—  "Ship  Grand  Turk  at  Canton,  1786."  The  Grand  Turk  was 
the  first  New  England  ship  in  China.  Undoubtedly  this 
painting  was  copied  by  the  Chinese  artist  from  the  engraved 
frontispiece  of  Hutchinson's  Naval  Architecture  first  published 
in  London  in  1777,  or  from  some  engraving  from  which  this 
frontispiece  was  taken,  illustrating  the  ship  Hall,  a  typical 
ship  of  the  period,  with  all  sails  set;  the  American  flag  shown 
in  the  painting  on  the  bowl  being  added  by  the  artist.  A 
reduced  reproduction  of  the  Hutchinson  illustration  appears 
in  Ships,  Sea  Songs  and  Shanties  by  W.  B.  Whall,  Glasgow, 
1913,  as  the  "English  West  Indiaman  Hall  of  1783."  [See 
also,  Chatterton,  Ships  and  Ways  of  Other  Days,  p.  264.] 
The  Grand  Turk  was  a  successful  privateer  in  the  American 
Revolution,  owned  by  Elias  Hasket  Derby  and  commanded 


by  Thomas  Simmons  and  Joseph  Pratt.  She  mounted  twenty- 
eight  guns  and  carried  140  men.  [See  Salem  Ship  Register 
for  full  account  of  the  ships  by  the  name  of  Grand  Turk.]  So 
far  as  known  there  is  no  picture  of  Mr.  Derby's  "great  ship," 
Grand  Turk,  built  in  Salem  in  1791. 

Grand  Turk,  brig,  of  Salem,  privateer,  built  at   Wiscasset,  Maine, 
1812,  309  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Letter  of  Marque  Brig 
Grand  Turk,  14  guns,  William  Austin  Commander,  Saluting 
Marseilles,  1815"  and  signed,  —  "Anton  Roux  a  Marseille, 
1815."  This  is  a  beautiful  example  of  Anton  Roux's  work; 
it  is  in  perfect  condition,  never  having  been  exposed  to  strong 
light;  it  is  also  unusually  pictorial  among  ship  paintings  of 
the  period. 

Grotius,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Duxbury,  Mass.,  1829,  229  tons. 

Small  pen  and  ink  sketch  by  Augustus  D.  Rogers,  son  of  one 
of  the  owners  of  the  ship. 

Hamilton,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  at  Camden,  Maine,  1846,  275  tons. 

Oil  painting  inscribed,  —  "Barque  Hamilton,  Captn.  Charles 
Gill  enterin  Smyrna  Mai  6,  1849"  and  signed,  —  "Raffael 
Corzini,"  At  the  left,  beneath  a  row  boat  is,  —  "Peter  Issa- 
verdens." 

Hamilton,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  by  Gushing  O.  and  Henry  Briggs  at 
Scituate,  Mass.,  1830,  164  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  in  water-color  of  an  original  in  oil 
by  William  Henry  Luscomb  of  Salem  about  1840. 

Harvey  Birch,  ship,  of  New  York,  built  by  Irons  and  Grinnell  at 
Mystic,  Conn.,  1854,  1482  tons. 

Oil  painting  of  the  capture  and  burning  of  the  ship  by  C.  S.  A. 
Nashville.  Painted  by  D.  McFarlane,  1864.  Capt.  William 
H.  Nelson  of  Salem  was  commander  of  the  Harvev  Birch. 


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CLIPPER  SHIP   "JOHN   BERTRAM"    OF   SALEM,    1851 


TOPSAIL    SCHOONER    "H.  H.  COLE"    OV    SALEM.     lo 
Painting  by  Clement  Drew. 


Hazard,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Retire  Becket  at  Salem,  1799,  325 
tons. 

Water-color  painting  showing  the  starboard  side  inscribed,  — 
"Ship  Hazard  of  Salem"  and  signed,  —  "Michele  Corne  pinxit 
in  Salem  1802."  C.  Also,  one  showing  the  port  side  inscribed, 
—  "Hazard  of  Salem"  and  signed,  —  "M.  Corne  p[inxit], 
1805."  H  Also,  one  on  metal  in  oil  similar  to  the  last  and 
evidently  an  early  painting.  During  the  difficulties  with 
France  in  1799  the  Hazard  carried  10  guns. 


Henry  Tuke,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Thatcher  Magoun  at  Medford, 
Mass.,  1824,  365  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  at  Whampoa. 


Herald,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Duxbury,  Mass.,  1832,  162  tons. 

Oil  painting  showing  the  brig  at  Dixcove,  Gold  Coast,  Africa . 

Hercules,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  1805,  290  tons. 

Large  water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Hercules,  ship  of 
Salem,  Capt.  Edward  West  passing  the  Mole  Head  of  Naples, 
coming  to  Ancor  13th  Sept.  1809."  Unfortunately  this  fine 
and  interesting  painting  is  not  signed,  d  Also,  copy  by 
M.  Macpherson  of  an  original  inscribed,  —  "Ship  Hercules  of 
Salem  laying  to  in  a  heavy  gale  in  the  Baltic,  Nov.  6,  1825" 
and  signed,  —  "T.  P.  fecit."  The  Hercules  was  seized  at 
Naples  in  1809,  the  date  of  the  larger  painting,  but  was  later 
released  to  take  Lucien  Bonaparte  and  his  family  to  the  United 
States,  his  sister  Caroline's  husband,  Murat,  king  of  Naples, 
furnishing  the  means.  They  left  Naples  on  the  Hercules 
August  5,  1810,  but  through  misadventure  were  intercepted 
by  the  British  cruiser  Pomona  and  taken  to  Malta.  Although 
Lucien  Bonaparte  did  not  reach  the  United  States  the  Hercules 
thus  escaped  confiscation.  The  Hercules  finally  became  a 
whaler  and  was  lost  in  the  Pacific  in  1847  after  forty-two  years 
of  successful  voyages.     - 

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H.  H.  Cole,  topsail  schooner,  of  Salem,  built  at  Baltimore,  1843, 
98  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  Clement  Drew  of  Boston. 

Highlander,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  b^^  Samuel  Hall  at  Boston,  1868, 
1352  tons.  Purchased  by  Benjamin  W.  Stone  &  Brothers, 
1869,  for  $100,000. 

Large  oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  at  Hong  Kong. 

Horace,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Durham,  N.  H.,  1800,  382  tons. 

Water-color  sketch  by  M.  Macpherson  from  original  in  ship's 
log-book. 

Howard,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Kittery,  Maine,  1801,  290  tons. 
Owned  by  William  Gray  of  Salem,  but  registered  in  Boston. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Ship  Howard  of  Salem 
coming  into  the  Port  of  Naples  1804."  [See  William  Gray 
of  Salem  by  Edward  Gray,  p.  104.] 

Hygiel\,  ship,  formerly  American  ship  Daniel  Webster  of  New  York, 
built  by  Donald  McKay  at  Boston,  1850,  1187  tons. 

In  large  oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  showing  the  Hygieia 
with  others  at  Whampoa,  China,  housed-in  for  a  store-ship. 

Indus,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  1818,  263  tons. 

Oil  painting  inscribed,  —  "Brig  Indus  of  Salem  wrecked 
on  the  Moy  Island  the  14th  of  October,  1829,  in  the  morning." 
The  Ship  Register  says,  —  "Island  of  Bornholm,  on  a  voyage 
to  St.  Petersburg." 

Iris,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Kennebunk,  Maine,  1797,  227  tons. 

Three  water-color  paintings  showing  the  ship  entering  the 
port  of  Naples,  at  anchor,  and  passing  out  under  full  sail.  These 
paintings  are  not  signed  but  must  have  been  made  in  1806 
as  the  Iris  was  at  Naples  that  year. 

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YACHT    -LOUISA'- 
Painting  by  Anton  Roux,  Marseilles,  1816. 


SHIP    '•  MARGARET  '    OF    SALEM 
PaintinR  by  M.   F.  Corne,  1802. 


John,  ketch,  of  Salem,  built  by  Enos  Briggs  at  Salem,  1795,  altered 
to  a  ship,  1799,  258  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "The  Ship  John  of  Salem 
1803"  and  signed,  —  "Michele  Corne  pinxit  in  Salem."  The 
John  was  a  privateer  in  the  War  of  1812  with  a  crew  of  160 
men  and  mounted  16  guns. 


John  Bertram,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  R.  E.  Jackson  at  Boston, 
1851,   1060  tons. 

Large  oil  painting.  €1  Also,  copy  in  water-color  by  Ross 
Turner,  1893.  The  John  Bertram  was  an  extreme  clipper, 
180  feet  long,  37  feet  in  breadth  and  20  feet  deep,  was  built 
in  ninety  days  and  in  1852  made  the  passage  from  Boston  to 
San  Francisco  in  105  days. 


John  H.  Millay,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  at  Bowdoinham,  Maine,  1848, 
248  tons. 

Two  water-color  paintings  with  the  name  inscribed  on  the 
vessel. 


John  Tucker,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Boston,  1857,  989  tons. 
Oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist. 


Joseph  Peabody,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Hingham,  Mass.,   1833, 
224  tons. 

Water-color  sketch  by  M.  Macpherson  from  original  in  a 
log-book. 


JosiAH  Bradlee,  ship,  of  Boston,  built  by  Foster  &  Taylor  at  Med- 
ford,  Mass.,  1849,  648  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist. 
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Julian,  ship,  of  New  Bedford,  built  at  Duxbury,  Mass.,  1828,  356  tons. 

With  the  bark  Richard  of  Salem,  in  large  oil  painting  of 
whaling  scene.  Built  by  Foster  &  Co.  at  the  Wanton  ship- 
yard, Scituate,  Mass.  [See  Briggs,  Shipbuilding  on  the  North 
River,  Plymouth  Co.,  Mass.,  p.  236.] 

Julius,  ship. 

In  oil  painting  by  Evans  &  Arnold  at  New  Orleans,  1850 
with  ship  Shirley  of  Salem  both  in  tow  of  tug  Panther. 

Lady  Sarah,  hermaphrodite  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Matthews  County, 
Va.,  1825,  106  tons. 

Oil  painting.  Referred  to  as  a  schooner  in  Salem  Ship 
Register. 

La  Grange,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  1835,  259 
tons. 

A  small  pencil  sketch  by  William  Henry  Luscomb  of  Salem. 
C  Also,  full  rigged  model  made  by  Dr.  Levi  Saunders  of  Glou- 
cester, a  member  of  the  party  of  gold-seekers  who  sailed  from 
Salem  in  the  La  Grange  for  California,  1849.  €.  Also,  sketch  in 
pencil  and  ink  by  H.  A.  Tuttle  of  Salem,  one  of  the  passengers 
to  California,  inscribed,  —  "Position  of  the  La  Grange  in  pass- 
ing Cape  Horn,  the  4th.  of  July,  1849."  and  signed  "H.  Tuttle." 
From  a  log  book  at  the  Essex  Institute. 

Lantao,  ship,  of  Boston,  built  by  Samuel  Hall  at  East  Boston,  1849, 
593  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  at  Whampoa,  about  1850. 
Sailed  from  Caldera,  Chili,  Oct.  26,  1856  and  was  never  heard 
from  afterwards. 


Laura,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Salem,  1818,  201  tons. 

Two  similar  water-color  paintings  probably  made  at  Palermo. 

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Leander,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  by  Benjamin  Hawkes  at  Salem,  1821, 
223  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Leander  of  Salem,  James 
Silver  Master,  Smyrna,  Jany.  1830"  and  signed, — -"E.  Car- 
miletti."  A  duty  of  $92,392  was  paid  at  the  Salem  Custom 
House  on  a  cargo  brought  to  Salem  by  the  Leander  in  1826, 
the  largest  sum  paid  on  a  single  cargo  to  that  date.  [See 
Osgood  and  Batchelder,  Sketch  of  Salem,  p.  134.] 

Levant,  ship,  of  Boston,   built  by  Thatcher  Magoun  at  Medford, 
Mass..  1835. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  an  original  water-color  painting 
showing  the  ships  Levant  and  Milo  at  Lintin,  China.  These 
vessels  were  owned  by  Russell  &  Co.  of  Boston  about  1840. 
[See  Milo.\ 

Liverpool,   ship,   built  by    Thatcher    Magoun  at  Medford,  Mass., 
1830,  450  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  Robert  Salmon  about  1837.  Signals  dis- 
played, —  "M.  S."  and  "A.  C.  H.  London, "  Boston  and 
Liverpool  packet  line.     [See  Bradlee,  E.  L  Hist.  Coll.  Jan.  1920.] 

Lombard,  ship. 

Small  pencil  sketch  by  George  F.  Morse  at  Portland,  Maine, 
harbor,  1858. 

Lotos,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Elijah  Briggs  at  Salem,  1828, 296  tons. 
Oil  painting,  possibly  by  Benjamin  F.  West  of  Salem. 

Louisa,  ship-rigged  yacht. 

Water-color  sketch  in  Anton    Roux  album,  painted  at  Mar- 
seilles, 1816.     [See  Roux,  p.  59.] 

LuBRA,  hermaphrodite  brig,  of  Boston,  built  by  Putnam  at  Danvers- 
port,  Mass.,  1864,  318  tons. 

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Oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  showing  the  vessel  off  the 
Light-ship  at  Shanghai,  China.  Signals  show  "C"  on  a  red 
and  white  swallow-tail  and  "C"  in  a  white  spot  on  a  blue 
swallow-tail.  Lloyds  says,  built  at  Davenport,  Maine,  but 
no  such  place  is  found  in  the  gazetteer. 

Mc  GiLVERY,  bark,  of  Searsport,  Maine,  built  at  Stockton,  Maine, 
1863,  501  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  water-color  painting. 
T.  P.  Pingree  &  Co.  of  Salem  were  owners  in  1875. 

Maid  of  Orleans,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  at  Duxbury,  Mass.,  1839, 
258  tons. 

Oil  painting. 

Malay,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Salem,  1818,  268  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Brig  Malay  in  Leghorn 
Roads,  John  Nichols,  Jr.  Master,  Oct.  16,  1833"  a^nd  signed, 

—  "Peter  Mazzinghi  fecit  Leghorn."  Altered  to  a  bark  in 
1834  and  used  for  a  whaler;  lost  in  the  Mozambique  Channel 
in  1842. 

Malay,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  John  Taylor  at  Chelsea,  Mass.,  1842, 
868  tons. 

Large  oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  at  Hong  Kong.  CL  Also, 
builder's  half-hull  model. 

Margaret,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Retire  Becket  at  Salem,  1800, 
295  tons. 

Water-color  painting,  port  side,  drawn  to  scale,  inscribed,  — 
"Francisco  Resmann,  Trieste."  C.  Also,  copy  by  Ross 
Turner,  1893.  C.  Also,  an  oil  painting  by  Benjamin  F.  West 
of  Salem,  probably  done  about  1830,  and  therefore  copied 
from  some  other  earlier  painting.  <I  Also,  copy  by 
M.  Macpherson,  of  original  showing  the  starboard  side,  signed 

—  "Michele   Corne  p[inxit].    1802."     The   Margaret   was   lost 

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SHIP    -MONK"   OF   SALEM 
aiming  by  Nicolai  Carmillieri,  Marseilles, 


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Mill'    ■•\H)l-NT    VHRNON"    OF    SAl.KM 
Escaping  from  the  French  cf  Gibralter.     Painting  by  M.  F.  Corne.  1799 


on  a  passage  from  Naples  to  Salem  in  1810,  with  great  suffering 
by  the  crew,  only  a  few  of  whom  were  saved.  The  Margaret 
was  in  Japan,  1801.     [See  Franklin.] 

Mars,  brig,  of  Salem,  101  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  water-color  painting. 
A  long  confusing  inscription  is  on  the  back  of  the  frame.  The 
brig  was  captured  from  the  British  in  the  War  of  1812  and  is 
said  to  have  been  used  afterwards  as  a  privateer. 

Mary,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Salem,  1800,  176  tons. 

Water-color  sketch  by  M.  Macpherson  from  original  in  a 
log-book. 

Mary  Felker,  schooner,  built  at  Newburyport,  1851,  109  tons. 

Oil  painting  inscribed,  —  "Mary  Felker,  Schooner  of  New- 
buryport, C.  Smith  Master,  taken  at  Balto.  [Baltimore,  Md.j 
1852."     C  Also,  rigged  model. 

Mary  Pauline,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  1833,  172 
tons. 

Oil  painting.  Said  formerly  to  have  been  a  slaver  under 
the  name  of  Lalla  Rookh. 

Mermaid,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  by  John  M.  Robertson  at  Charlestown, 
Mass.,  1828,  189  tons. 

A  small  pencil  sketch  by  William  Henry  Luscomb  of  Salem. 
C  Also,  copy  by  M.  Macpherson  in  water-color  of  an  oil 
painting  by  George  M.  White. 

Metamora,  brig,  of  Boston,  164  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Brig  Metamora  entering 
the  Port  of  Palermo,  June  1,  1831."  The  date  is  in  ink  but 
probably  to  replace  the  original  blurred  by  a  stain.  Sold  to 
Montevideo,  S.  A.,  1841. 


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Metis,  bark,  built  by  C.  H.  Currier  &  Co.  at  Newburyport,   1868, 
620  tons. 

Oil  painting  signed, —  "W.  H.  Smith." 


Mexican,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  by  Elijah  Briggs  at  Salem,  1824,  227 
tons. 

Pen  and  ink  sketch  made  Sept.  21,  1832,  the  morning 
after  the  brig  had  been  attacked  by  pirates,  by  the  mate 
of  the  Mexican,  Benjamin  Read,  inscribed,  —  "The  Pirates 
leaving  the  brig  Mexican  after  they  had  robbed  her  and  attempt- 
ed to  set  her  on  fire,  September  20,  1832."  This  sketch  was 
given  the  museum  by  the  grand-daughters  of  Capt.  John  G. 
Butman,  the  commander  of  the  brig  at  the  time.  A  companion 
sketch  was  made  showing  a  different  feature  of  the  piracy, 
but  it  cannot  be  traced  and  it  is  greatly  desired  to  have  this 
sketch  or  a  copy  of  it  in  the  collection.  C.  Also,  a  copy  by 
M,  Macpherson  in  water-color  of  an  oil  painting  by  George 
Southward,  "after  a  drawing  made  on  the  Mexican  by  Benjamin 
Read,  Sept.  20,  1832,"  probably  the  sketch  referred  to  as  not 
traced.  The  oil  painting  was  destroyed  in  the  Salem  fire  of 
June  1914.  C  Also,  water-color  sketch  of  the  Mexican  from 
an  original  in  the  log-book.  €1  Also,  builder's  half-hull 
model.  [For  full  account  of  this  piracy,  see  E.  I.  Hist.  Coll., 
vol.  XXXIV,  p.  41.] 


MiNDORO,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  John  Taylor  at  Boston,  1864, 
1065  tons.  It  cost  Pickman,  Silsbee  &  Allen,  of  Salem, 
$123,607.34. 

Large  oil  painting  by  Charles  Torrey  of  Brookline,  1920. 
C  Also,  another,  imperfect,  by  W.  P.  Stubbs  of  Boston,  to- 
gether with  photographs,  builder's  drawings  of  sail  plan,  etc. 
The  Mindoro  was  the  last  square-rigged  vessel  owned  in  Salem; 
she  had  been  laid  up  at  Derby  Wharf  for  some  years  and  "her 
departure  from  Salem,  April,  1894,  marked  the  end  of  the 
foreign  commerce  of  the  port." 

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SHIP    "MINDORO'    OF   SALEM 
The  lasl  ship  owned  in  Salem,  1897.     Painting  by  Charles  Torrey. 


Minnesota,  bark,  of  New  York,  built  at  Philadelphia,  1849,  243 
tons.  Later  a  New  Bedford  whaler,  recorded  in  Starbuck  as 
a  ship. 

Water-color  painting  by  Benjamin  Russell  of  New  Bedford 
inscribed,  —  "Bark  Minnesota  making  a  passage." 


MiLO,  ship,  of  Boston,  built  by  Thatcher  Magoun  at  Medford,  Mass., 
1835. 

Copy  in  water-color  of  original  in  oil  by  a  Chinese  artist, 
with  the  ship  Levant  at  Lintin,  China,  about  1840.     [See  Levant.] 


Monk,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Nobleborough,  Maine,  180o,  2o3  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Ship  Monk  of  Salem, 
Capt.  John  W.  Albn"  and  signed,  —  "Nicolay  Carmillieri 
1806"  [Marseilles]. 


MONTAUK,  ship,  of  New  York,  built  by  W.  H.  Webb  for  A.  k.  Low  & 
Brother,  1844,  540  tons. 

Oil  painting  signed,  —  "Sunqua,"  a  Chinese  artist  at  Wham- 
poa.  One  of  the  earliest  clipper  ships  built.  [See  Clark,. 
Clipper  Ship  Era,  p.  64.] 


Mount  Vernon,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Retire  Becket  at  Salem, 
1798,  355  tons. 

Three  water  color  paintings  by  M.  Corne,  one  showing  the 
ship  escaping  from  the  French  fleet  near  Gibraltar,  1799,  and 
two  showing  her  attacking  a  lateen-rigged  vessel.  C.  Also,  a 
copy  of  a  painting  of  the  Mount  Vernon  by  Corne  on  a  wall  at 
Newport,  R.  I.,  together  with  photographs  of  other  pictures 
of  the  ship.  The  ship  in  the  painting  by  Corne  made  in  1804 
for  the  East  India  Marine  Society  is  the  Mount  Vernon,  and 
probably  one  at  least  of  the  vessels  in  the  ceiling  of  the  Derby 
house  cupola  in  the  out-door  museum  at  the  Essex  Institute. 
Corne   escaped    from   conscription   at    Naples   in    the    Mount 


Vernon  and  continually  showed  his  sentimental  attachment 
for  the  vessel  by  painting  pictures  of  her.  [See  under  Corne.] 
The  Mount  Vernon  mounted  20  guns  and  had  a  crew  of  50  men. 

MuTLAH,  ship,  of  Boston,  London  Register,  1864,  built  at  Medford, 
Mass.,  1863,  1011  tons. 

Large  oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  about  1865.  Com- 
manded at  times  by  Captains  Ballard  and  Miller  of  Salem; 
Capt.  E.  B.  Trumbull  was  mate  on  this  ship. 

Naiad,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  1817,  259  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Naiad  of  Salem  leaving 
Marseilles  for  India,  March  5,  1820"  and  signed,  —  "Anton 
Roux  a  Marseille  1820." 

Nancy,  ship,  of  Newburyport,  built  at  Newbury,  Mass.,  1802. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Nancy  of  Newbury  Port 
Captn.  Charles  Hodge"  and  signed, —  "F.  Dannenberg  fecit 
Ao.  1805."  Signals,  —  white  swallowtail  with  blue  border  and 
a  blue  square  with  large  white  "H." 

Natchez,  bark,  of  Boston.     [Probably  the  Natchez,  299  tons,  built 
1838  and  wrecked  at  Marshfield,  1848.] 

Painting  on  glass  inscribed,  —  "Natchez  of  Boston,  A.  A. 
Burwell  Commander"  and  signed,  in  print  type,  —  "P.  Weytz 
Antwerp";  about  1840.  There  are  but  two  paintings  of  vessels 
upon  glass  in  the  collection;  this  and  one  of  the  Robert  Pulsford. 
As  the  paint  on  glass  frequently  peels  off,  these  are  the  most 
perishable  of  all  paintings. 

Navigator,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  J.  O.  Curtis  at  Medford,  Mass., 
1841,  333  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  in  water-color  of  original  in  oil 
inscribed,  —  "Navigator  of  Salem,  William  B.  Graves  Master 
1844"  and  signed,  —  "B.  F.  West  pinxit."  The  original  was 
destroyed  in  the  Salem  fire  of  June,  1914. 

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BRIG   "NAIAD'   OF  SALEM 
Painting  by  Anton  Roux,  Marseilles.  1820. 


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BRIG    "OLINDA"   OF   SALEM 
Painting  by  Francois  Roux,  Marseilles,  1827 


Neponset,  ship,  of  Boston,  built  by  Caleb  Turner  at  Weymouth, 
Mass.,  1830. 

Oil  painting,  under  glass,  inscribed,  —  "Ship  Neponset, 
John  J.  Scobie  [of  Salem]  Master  from  Canton  towards  New 
York";   about  1840. 

Nereus,  brig,  of  Boston,  built  at  Duxbury,  1829,  243  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Nereus  of  Boston,  Capt. 
Charles  F.  Williams  [of  Salem]  starting  from  Leghorn,  April  21, 
1833"  and  signed,  —  "Peter  Mazzinghi  Leghorn." 

Nereus,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  1818,  181  tons. 
Copy  in  water-color  of  original  in  oil. 

New  England,  ship,  of  Bath,  Maine,  1849,  920  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Ship  New  England  of 
Bath,  G.  W.  Edge  Master"  and  signed,  —  "John  Luz ...  of 
Venice." 

New  Hazard,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Newbury,  Mass.,  1809,  281  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  Charles  Torrey  of  Brookline,  Mass.,  1919, 

from   original   inscribed,  —  "New  Hazard   of  Salem.     George 

Ropes  Nov.   181  [6]."     The  painting  shows  the  house  flag  of 

Josiah  Orne  of  Salem  on  the  foremast. 

Northumberland,  hermaphrodite  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Baltimore, 
1839,  175  tons. 

Copy  in  water-color  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  in  oil 
inscribed,  —"Northumberland  of  Salem,  John  Shirley  Master 
on  which  voyage  he  died  at  West  Coast  of  Africa,  Jan.  13, 
1844." 

Ohio,  hermaphrodite  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Marietta,  Ohio,  1847, 
143  tons. 

Oil  painting.  The  brig  reached  Salem  via  the  Ohio  and 
Mississippi  rivers. 

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Olinda,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  by  Elijah  Briggs  at  Salem,  1825,  178  tons. 

Water-color  painting  signed,  —  "F'cois  Roux  a  Marseille, 
1827."  "Launched  fully  rigged  with  cargo  on  board  and  sailed 
in  a  few  days,"  [Salem  Register,  July  21,  1825.] 

Packet,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Portland,  Maine,  1803,  229  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  Charles  Torrey  of  Brookline,  Mass.,  1919, 
from  original  inscribed,  —  "Packet  of  Salem  G.  Ropes  181  [4]." 
There  was  a  ship  Packet  built  at  Braintree,  Mass.,  1802,  339 
tons,  but  not  recorded  as  registered  in  Salem  until  1827.  The 
painting  shows  the  house-flag  of  Josiah  Orne  of  Salem  on  the 
foremast. 

Paladin,  ship,  built  at  Baltimore,  1850,  455  tons. 

Large  oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  about  1850. 

Pallas,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  at  Duxbury,  Mass.,  1825,  209  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  in  water-color  of  sketch  in  a 
sea  journal  probably  made  by  Henry  Archer,  master  of  the 
bark. 

Pamelia,    hermaphrodite    brig,    of    Salem,    built    at    Nobleborough, 
Maine,  1825,  151  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  William  Henry  Luscomb  of  Salem,  about 
1842,  showing  the  vessel  in  Salem  harbor. 

Patriot,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  at  Danvers,  Mass.,  1809,  265  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Bark  Patriot  of  Salem, 
Captain  Nathan  Frye,  1817"  and  signed,  —  "Drawn  by 
Jacob  Petersen"  at  Copenhagen  showing  the  bark  passing 
Elsinore  Castle. 

Patsey  B.  Blount,  brigantine,  of  Salem,  built  at  Beaufort,  N.  C, 
1828,  120  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  painting. 
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BARK    -PATRIOT"    OF    SALEM    PASSING    ELSINOKE,    1809 
Painting  by  Jacob  Petersen 


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SHIP   'RECOVERY"  OF  SALEM 
Painting  by  William  Ward,  1799. 


Peggy,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Brunswick,  Maine,  1788,  167  tons. 

Water-color  sketch  by  M.  Macpherson  from  original  on  a 
pitcher  of  Liverpool  ware  dated  1797.  It  is  probable  that  all 
pictures  of  vessels  on  pitchers,  plates  and  bowls  are  typical 
rather  than  actual  portraits  of  the  vessels. 


Perseverance,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  1794,  245 
tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  in  water-color  of  original  in  oil 
but  with  the  sails  changed,  fl  Also,  an  oil  painting  by  M. 
Corne  showing  the  Perseverance  wrecked  at  Tarpaulin  Cove, 
Naushon  island,  Mass.,  in  1805.  C.  Also,  a  Washington 
mourning  pitcher  of  Liverpool  ware  with  a  picture  of  a 
ship  on  one  side  inscribed,  —  "Perseverance"  and  "Lydia 
Barnard"  together  with  several  sailors'  mottoes.  The 
Perseverance,  under  command  of  Capt.  Richard  Wheatland, 
was  the  first  American  vessel  to  visit  Archangel,  Russia. 

Persia,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Salem,  1822,  254  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  water-color  inscribed,  — 
"Brig  Persia  of  Salem,  Capt.  Moses  Endicott"  and,  in  script, 
added  later,  —  "Wrecked  on  Cape  Ann  in  1829  and  all  hands 
perished."  d  Also,  builder's  half-hull  model.  In  the  museum 
collection  is  a  piece  of  the  rail  of  the  Persia  with  a  part  of  the 
vessel's  name  upon  it  which  was  washed  ashore  from  the  wreck. 

Phoenlx,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Newbury,  Mass.,  1816,  248  tons. 

Water-color  painting  signed,  —  "Felice  PoUi,  Trieste." 
C  Also,  copy  of  a  different  water-color  painting  showing  the 
Phoenix  entering  the  port  of  Genoa,  inscribed,  —  "Brig  Phoenix 
of  Salem,  W.  D.  Waters  Commander"  and  signed,  —  "Antoine 
Vittaluga  del  e  Peintre  an   1829,  Janvier,  delline  de  original." 

Planet,  schooner,  of  Salem. 

Oil  painting.  The  Planet  was  at  one  time  a  pilot  boat  in 
Salem  harbor. 


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Plato,  topsail  schooner,  of  Salem,  built  by  Enos  Briggs  at  Salem, 
1816,  125  tons,  altered  to  140  tons  in  1829. 

Oil  painting. 

Propontis,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Thatcher  Magoun  at  Medford 
Mass.,  1833,  425  tons. 

Water-color  painting  signed,  —  "Hre.  Pellegrin.  Marseilles, 
1844."     C  Another,  similar,  evidently  by  the  same  artist. 

Prudent,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Ebenezer  Mann  at  Salem,  1799. 
214  tons. 

Water-color  painting,  unsigned  but  old,  showing  a  remarkable 
raking  of  the  masts  and  interesting  old  sails.  €[  Also,  copy 
by  Ross  Turner,  1893.  The  Prudent  was  taken  by  the  British 
and  condemned  at  Ceylon,  1806. 

Raduga,  ship,  of   Boston,  built  by  Currier  and  Townsend  at  New- 
bury, Mass.,  1848,  586  tons. 

Large  pencil  drawing,  with  flags  colored,  by  Capt.  Andrew 
M.  Ropes,  while  on  a  voyage  to  Honolulu,  inscribed,  — 
"Raduga,  A.  M.  Ropes,  1863." 


Reaper,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Amesbury,  Mass.,  1820,  229  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  inscribed,  —  "Reaper 
of  Salem,  S.  Benson  Master,  1823"  and  signed,  —  "Anton 
Roux  fils  aine  a  Marseille,  1823."  Altered  to  a  bark,  1833, 
and  made  several  whaling  voyages.  A  grandson  of  Capt. 
Benson  a  few  years  since  named  his  yacht  Reaper.  This 
desirable  way  of  perpetuating  the  names  of  ancestral  ships  is 
becoming  quite  common  as  is  also  the  use  of  old  family  house 
and  ships'  flags  upon  modern  yachts.  The  Marine  Room 
collection   and  catalogs  are  often  consulted  for  this  purpose. 


Recovery,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Retire  Becket  at  Salem,  1794, 
284  tons. 

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Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Recovery  of  Salem"  and 
signed,  —  "Wm.  Ward  Delinr.  1799."  The  first  American 
vessel  at  Mocha,  Arabia,  1798,  when  she  took  out  $50,000  in 
specie  for  purposes  of  trade.  [See  Osgood  and  Batchelder, 
Sketch  of  Salem,  p.  161.] 

Restitution,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Newbury,  Mass.,  1803,  247  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Restitution,  John  Ham- 
mond Commander  Entering  the  Port  of  Palermo,  Aug.  22, 
1833." 

Richard,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  by  Jenks  and  Hoyt  at  Salem,  1826, 
252  tons. 

Water-color  painting  signed,  —  "Hre.  Pellegrin  a  Marseille 
an  1831."  C.  Also,  shown  in  large  painting  of  whaling  scene 
with  the  ship  Julian.  C.  Also,  sail  plan  drawn  to  scale  and 
colored,  with  dimensions  marked. 

Robert  Pulsford,  ship,  of  Lynn,  406  tons. 

Painting  on  glass  inscribed,  —  "Ship  Robert  Pulsford  of 
Lynn  passing  Flushing,  John  J.  Scobie  [of  Salem]  Master 
Commander  1844"  and  signed,  —  "P.  Weytz  Antwerp." 
One  of  two  paintings  on  glass.     [See  Natchez.] 

ROLLA,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Philadelphia,  1831,  180  tons. 

Small  oil  painting  by  William  Henry  Luscomb  of  Salem. 

Rome,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Elijah  Briggs  at  Salem,  1829,  344  tons. 
Purchased  by  Stone,  Silsbee  &  Pickman  of  Salem,  in  1841, 
for  $18,625. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Rome  of  Salem,  Capt. 
Samuel  R.  Curwen  leaving  Marseilles,  March,  1848"  and 
signed,  —  "Hre.  Pellegrin  a  Marseille  1848."  The  Rome 
was  sold  at  San  Franciso  in  1849,  drawn  ashore  and  built  into 
a  wharf;  suggestive  of  Bret  Harte's  story,  "A  Ship  of  '49," 
altho  Bret  Harte's  ship  was  the  ^'Poniiac  of  Marseilles." 

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ROOUE,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Roque  Island,  Jonesborough,  Maine, 
as  a  schooner,  1816,  158  tons;  altered  to  a  brig,  1821,  206  tons. 

Water-color  painting  as  a  brig,  unsigned,  probably  painted 
at  Palermo. 

Russell,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Cohasset,  1835,  182  tons. 
Oil  painting. 

St.  Clair,  ship,  about  1870- 1880. 

Water-color  sketch  inscribed, —  " St.  Clair"  and  signed.  — 
"Charles  W.  Norton,  Detroit."     A  vessel  of  the  Great  Lakes. 

St.  Paul,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Wheelwright  at  Boston,  1833, 
463  tons. 

Water-color    painting,    unsigned,    evidently    by    the    same 
hand  as  the  Statesman. 

Sally,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Boston,  1803,  322  tons. 

Water-color  painting  probably  done  at  Palermo  or  Genoa. 

Sapphire,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Rodgers  at  Medford,  Mass.,  1824, 
365  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  water-color  painting. 
A  whaler  from  Salem,  1836-1842,  lost,  1842. 

Shirley,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  P.  &  J.  O.  Curtis  at  Medford,  1850, 
910  tons.  Purchased  by  Stone,  Silsbee  &  Pickman,  of  Salem, 
in  1852,  for  $52,500. 

Large  oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  at  Hong  Kong. 
CIAlso,  in  a  very  large  painting  by  "Evans  &  Arnold, 
1850"  at  New  Orleans,  showing  the  Shirley  in  tow  of  tug  Pan- 
ther with  the  ship  Julius  and  sloop  Star.  C.  Also,  builder's 
half-hull  model.  Sold  in  San  Francisco,  towed  to  Alaska  and 
converted  into  a  hotel  in  1897. 

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SHIP    "ROME"    OF   SALEM 
Painting  by  Hre  Pelegrini,  1848 


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BRIGANTINE    "SUKEY"   OF   SALEM 
Painting  by  M.  Macpherson.  after  George  Ropes  in  1804. 


SiAM,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  1847,  726  tons. 
Oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  at  Whampoa. 


Skobeleff,   barkentine,   of  Boston,   built  at   Deering,   Maine.    1882, 
621  tons. 

Oil   painting   by    W.    P.    Stubbs   of   Boston.     An   excellent 
illustration  of  this  rather  uncommon  rig. 


SoOLOO[lst],  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Jenks  and  Ho^i:  at  Salem,  1840, 
440  tons. 

Water-color  painting  signed,  —  "Hre.  Pellegrini  a  Mar- 
seille, 1844,"  showing  light  yellow  hull.  C.  Another,  signed, 
—  "Fac.  Domenico  Gavazzone  Genoa  le  25  Julio,  1848,"  show- 
ing painted  ports.  C.  Also,  an  oil  painting  representing 
the  Sooloo  in  a  gale  off  Mauritius.  C.  Also,  builder's  half- 
hull  model.  The  Sooloo  was  lost  on  the  coast  of  Sumatra  in 
May,  1855. 


SoOLOO[2d],  ship,  of  Salem,  built   by  John   Taylor  at  Boston.  1861, 
784  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  Charles  Torrey  of  Brookline,  1919.     C.  Also, 
builder's  half-hull  model  and  several  photographs  of  the  ship. 


SOPHRONIA,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  by  Luther  Briggs  at  Pembroke, 
Mass.,  1841,  197  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  in  water-color  of  original  oil 
painting  about  1850. 

South  Carolina,  ship. 

Small  water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "South  Carolina 
A.  D.  1793,  Jon.  Phippen."  The  vessel  appears  to  be  armed, 
wears  an  American  flag  at  the  stern  and  has  a  lion  figurehead. 
It  may  represent  the  Continental  frigate  of  1784. 

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Spy,  topsail  schooner,  of  Salem,  built  by  George  Fuller  at  Medford, 
Mass.,  1823,  98  tons.     Altered  to  a  brig  before  Aug.  10,  1832. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  an  original  water-color  painting. 


Star,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  at  Scituate,  Mass.,  1838,  212  tons. 
Oil  painting,  probably  by  Benjamin  F.  West  of  Salem. 


Statesman,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  by  Jonathan  B.  Bates  at  Cohasset, 
1826,  258  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  an  original  water-color  painting 
made  by  the  same  artist  as  the  picture  of  the  St.  Paul.  Alter- 
ed to  a  bark  in  1836  for  whaling  and  condemned  in  1844. 


SUKEY,  brigantine,  of  Salem,  built  at  Falmouth,  Mass.,  1795,  102  tons. 

Three  copies  by  M.  Macpherson  of  different  water-color 
paintings  of  the  brig,  the  originals  all  done  by  George  Ropes 
of  Salem,  one  signed,  —  "G.  Ropes  1802." 


Sumatra,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  John  Taylor  at  Chelsea,   1856, 
1041  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  an  English  artist  representing  the  ship  off 
the  Dover  cliffs.     C.  Also,  builder's  half-hull  model. 


Surprise,  topsail  schooner,  privateer,  of  Baltimore. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  '  'Surprise  capturing  the 
Star  Jan.  27,  1815."  [See  Coggeshall,  American  Privateers, 
p.  326.]     The  Surprise  was  often  at  Salem. 


Susan  Drew,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Duxbury,  Mass.,  1839,  696  tons. 

Etching  by  George  C.  Wales.     C.  Also,  photograph  of  oil 
painting  of  the  ship. 

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SHIP   "TRIUMPHANT"   OF   SALEM 
Painting  by  George  Ropes,  1805. 


PACKET    SHIP    "UNITED   STATES' 

Painting  by  Robert  Salmon.  1817. 


Sylvia  W.  Swasey,  bark,  of  Salem.  British  built,  1852,  439  tons. 

Sepia  painting  from  original  in  oil  destroyed  in  the  Salem 
fire  of  June.  1914. 

Taria  ToPAN.  bark,  of  Salem,  built  by  Edward  F.  Miller  at  Salem, 
1870.  631  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  W.  P.  Stubbs  of  Boston,  1881.  "The  last 
square  rigged  vessel  of  large  size  belonging  to  Salem  owners 
built  in  Salem."  Named  for  a  Zanzibar  merchant,  a  business 
connection  and  friend  of  the  owners  of  the  vessel. 

Tartar,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Enos  Briggs  at  Salem,  1811,  401  tons. 
Oil    painting    inscribed, —  "  Ship    Tartar    leaving    Bombay 
April  26,  1818." 

Thetis,  hermaprodite  brig,  of  Boston. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Thetis  of  Boston"  and 
"Exuzione  li  24  Octbr.  1822."  The  picture,  painted  at  Naples, 
shows  Mt.  Vesuvius  in  extensive  eruption;  no  artist's  name 
is  given. 

Thomas  Perkins,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  1837, 
595  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  painting.  C.  Also, 
builder's  half-hull  model. 

Tidal  Wave,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  at  Essex,  Mass.,  1854,  361  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  Charles  Torrey  of  Brookline,  1920,  from  a 
photograph  by  Fred.  Fogg  1864.  The  Tidal  Wave  entered 
Salem  for  the  last  time  on  February  22,  1865. 

Topaz,  brig,  of  Newburyport,  built  at  Newbury,  Mass.,   1807,  213 
tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Topaz  of  Newburyport, 
Captn.  Moses  Knight"  and  signed, —  " Anton  Roux  a  Mar- 
seille, 1808." 

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Trent,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Freeport,  Maine,  1801,  191  tons. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Ship  Trent  of  Salem, 
Nathaniel  Kinsman  Commander."  An  early  painting,  neither 
signed  nor  dated. 


Triumphant,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Dover,  N.  H.,  1802,  203  tons. 

Large  oil  painting  signed,  —  "George  Ropes,  1805."  George 
Ropes  was  a  pupil  of  Corne,  and  a  ship  in  the  left  distance  has 
the  appearance  of  Corne's  work  and  possibly  was  added  by 
him  to  balance  the  picture. 


Troubadour,  ship.     [Probably  the  ship  of  1199  tons  built  by  Currier 
at  Newburyport  in  1854.] 

Oil  painting  by  a  Chinese  artist  at  Whampoa  about  1860, 
with  ship  Emigrant. 

Two  Brothers,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Salem,  1818,  288  tons. 

Water-color  painting  signed,  —  "George  Ropes,  1818." 
€[  Also,  water-color  by  M.  Macpherson  from  sketch  drawn 
to  scale  in  the  ship's  log-book  by  Capt.  John  Upton,  the  com- 
mander, 1823. 

Tybee,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Philadelphia,  1829,  298  tons. 

Water-color  sketch  made  on  board  by  Augustus  D.  Rogers, 
son  of  one  of  the  owners  of  the  ship.  The  first  American 
vessel  at  Sydney,  Australia,  1832. 

Ulysses  [1st],  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Amesbury,  Mass.,  1794,  163 
tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  water-color  by  M.  Corne, 
inscribed,  —  "Cap.  [James]  Cook  cast  a  way  on  Cape  Cod, 
1802."  C  Also,  in  set  of  three  oil  paintings  by  Corne  illus- 
trating the  departure  of  the  Brutus,  Ulysses  and  Volusia  from 
Salem  and  their  loss  the  next  day.     [See  Brutus  and  Volusia.] 

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SHIP    ''ULYSSES-    (2d)    UF    SALEM    RIGGING    A    TEMPORARY    RUDDER 

Painting  by  Anton  Roux,  Marseilles,    1804. 


SHIP    "ULYSSES"    (2d)    OF   SALEM 
Model  made  in  180 1  by  Capt.  William  Mugford  to  illustrate  his  temporary  rudder. 


Ulysses  [2d],  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  1798,  340  tons. 

Three  water-color  paintings,  each  signed,  —  "Anton  Roux  a 
Marseille,  1804,"  illustrating:  the  loss  of  the  ship's  rudder 
in  a  gale,  the  adjustment  of  a  temporary  rudder,  the  safe  arrival 
of  the  ship  at  Marseilles.  Each  picture  has  an  explanatory 
inscription.  For  his  achievement,  Capt.  William  Mugford 
of  Salem,  the  commander  of  the  ship,  received  the  Magellanic 
gold  medal  from  the  American  Philosophical  Soc.  of  Phila- 
delphia. The  Archives  of  Useful  Knowledge,  Vol.  Ill,  No.  2, 
October,  1812,  contains  a  description  of  Capt.  Mugford's 
extemporized  rudder  with  an  illustration.  C.  Also,  full  hull 
model,  showing  the  method  of  attaching  the  rudder,  made 
by  Capt.  Mugford  and  given  the  East  India  Marine  Society 
at  the  time.  The  museum  has  documents  and  correspondence 
connected  with  the  matter  and  the  ship's  sea-letter  for  the 
voyage,  signed  by  President  Thomas  Jefferson  and  James 
Madison  as  Secretary  of  State. 

Union,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Salem,  1802,  250  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  water-color  painting. 
d  Also,  enlarged  photograph  of  another  painting  inscribed,  — 
"Union  of  Salem,  George  Hodges  Commander.  1803." 

United  States,  ship. 

Oil  painting  by  Robert  Salmon  signed,  —  "R.  S.  1817." 
"United  States"  across  fore  topsail  with  a  double-headed 
eagle  below.  The  American  jack  at  mast-head  and  American 
flag  at  stern.  It  is  said  that  Salmon  embellished  his  paintings 
with  additions  not  on  the  objects  themselves. 

Vintage,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Scituate,  Mass.,  1837,  199  tons. 
Oil  painting  by  Clement  Drew  of  Boston. 

Volusia,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Falmouth,  Mass.,  1801,  273  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  of  original  water-color  painting 
by  M.   Corne  inscribed,  —  "  1802   Volusia   of  Salem  Cutting 

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the  Meason  (mi.zzen)  Mast  Feby.  22."  C.  Also,  in  set  of 
three  oil  paintings  by  Corne  illustrating  the  departure  of  the 
Brutus,  Ulysses,  and  Volusia  from  Salem  and  their  loss  the 
next  day.     [See  Brutus  and  Ulysses.] 

Water  Witch,  topsail  schooner,  of  Salem,  built  at  Newbury,  Mass.. 
1847,  145  tons. 

Oil  painting  signed,  —  *'B.  W."  [Benjamin  F.  West] 

Waverly,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Marshfield,  Mass.,  1827,  232  tons. 
Oil  painting. 

Welaka,  three-masted  schooner. 

Water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "L.  A.  Painter  of  Venice, 
1819."  While  the  drawing  is  very  good,  the  date  appears  to 
have  been  altered  and  is  more  likely  to  have  been  1870  - 1880 
—  or  the  whole  inscription  may  be  fictitious. 

White  Swallow,  ship,  of  Boston,  built  by  Hayden  &  Cudworth  at 
Medford,  Mass.,  1853,  1192  tons. 

Large  oil  painting  by  William  B.  Eaton  of  Salem,  1884. 
d  Also,  pencil  sketches  partly  colored  signed,  —  "A.  W. 
Phaelan,  Aug.  6,  1853."  The  White  Swallow  made  a  passage 
in  1860  from  New  York  to  San  Francisco  in  110  days. 

William,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  New  York,  1822,  292  tons. 

A  poor,  defaced,  water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "Ship 
William  of  Salem,  1826." 

William  Schroder,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  by  Jonathan  B.  Bates  at 
Cohasset,  1840,  238  tons. 

Oil  painting  by  Benjamin  F.  West  of  Salem. 

Witch,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  by  Justin  Carter  at  Salem,  1854,  210  tons. 
Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  in  water-color  of  original  in  oil. 

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SHIP    "VOLUSIA-    OF   SALEM    WRECKED    ON    CAPE    COD 

Painting  by  M.  F.  Corne.   1802. 


CLIPPER    SHIP     'WITCH   OF    THE    WAVE"   OF    SALEM,    1851 


Witch  of  the  Wave,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  George    Raynes  at 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  1851,  1498  tons. 

Large  oil  painting.  C.  Also,  a  photograph  of  another  paint- 
ing which  was  destroyed  in  the  Salem  fire  of  June,  1914.  The 
trip  of  this  clipper  ship  from  Portsmouth  to  Salem  to  obtain 
her  register  was  enjoyed  by  a  party  of  two  hundred  guests  of 
the  owners,  —  Capt.  John  Bertram  and  Mr.  Alfred  Peabody,  — 
who  were  entertained  with  music,  feasting  and  the  recitation 
of  an  original  poem  by  Jonathan  Nichols.  [See  Salem  papers 
of  the  date  and  Clark.  The  Clipper  Ship  Era,  pp.  166-172.] 
The  Wilch  of  the  Wave,  Captain  Joseph  Hardy  Millett  of  Salem, 
in  1852,  with  a  cargo  of  tea,  made  the  remarkably  short  passage 
of  ninety  days  from  Canton  to  Deal,  England. 

Zaine,  hermaphrodite  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Dorchester,  Maryland, 
1840,  158  tons. 
Oil  painting. 

ZOTOFF,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  at  Newbury,  Mass.,  1840,  220  tons. 

Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  in  water-color  of  original  in  oil. 
The  Zoloff  is  referred  to  in  Mrs.  M.  D.  Wallis's  Life  in 
Feegee,  Boston,  1851. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  PICTURES  OF  VESSELS 


Brig  with  British  flag,  followed  b}-'  a  schooner  with  U.  S.  Custom 
House  flag,  entering  Salem  harbor. 

A  large  oil  painting  said  to  represent  the  bringing  in  of  a 
captured  prize  during  the  War  of  1812.  The  general  appear- 
ance of  the  picture  and  frame  suggests  that  it  was  intended  for 
a  fire-board;  many  such  painted  fire-boards  were  made  in  the 
early  nineteenth  century. 


Lugger  and  Cutter.     French  Lugger  attacking  a  British  Cutter. 

Oil  painting  signed,  —  "R[obert].  S[almon].  1835."  In  the 
catalog  of  Robert  Salmon's  paintings,  from  his  own  notes, 
preserved  in  the  Boston  Public  Library,  a  copy  of  which  is  at 
the  Peabody  Museum,  there  are  two  references  to  pictures  of 
Cutters,  but  it  is  not  possible  to  determine  which  is  this  one. 


Naumkeag,  steam  tug,  of  Salem,  built  at  New  London,  Conn.,  about 
1880,  35  tons.  Sold  to  New  Market,  N.  H.  and  thence  to 
Machias,  Maine,  in  1884. 

Oil  painting  by  W.  B.  Eaton,  off  Bowditch's  ledge,  Salem 
harbor. 


Ship  coming  out  of  Liverpool. 

Oil  painting  referred  to  in  the  Salmon  catalog  as  "No.  29, 
Jan.  15,  1840.  View  of  Liverpool  from  Cheshire";  the  back 
of  the  painting  is  inscribed,  —  "No.  29,  painted  by  R.  Salmon, 
1840."     This  is  a  fine  example  of  Robert  Salmon's  work. 

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Steamer  off  Grand  Manan. 

Large  oil  painting  by  William    Edward   Norton  showing  a 
porgy  steamer  with  the  island  of  Grand  Manan  in  the  distance. 


Topsail  Schooner,  American,  1790;  also  armed  sloop. 

Water-color  sketches  by  William  Cleveland  (1777-1842) 
made  in  1790,  while  a  boy  of  thirteen,  on  the  cover  of  his  writ- 
ing book  at  a  Salem  school.  On  one  side  is  the  schooner  and 
on  the  other  is  a  water-color  sketch  of  an  armed  sloop  with 
topsails. 


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SKETCHES   IN   WATER-COLOR   AND   BLACK-AND-WHITE 

Gore,    Charles,    England. 

Twenty-four  water-color  and  wash  sketches  of  similar  char- 
acter, several  of  which  are  incribed,  —  "From  Charles  Gore, 
Esqr.  1787."  One  water  color  of  a  sloop  is  14  x  11  inches;  a 
brig.  12  X  8  inches;    the  others  are  smaller. 

Morse,  George  F.,  Portland,  Maine. 

Thirteen  pencil  sketches,  including  thirty  vessels  of  various 
rigs,  made  in  Portland  harbor  in  1858.  Among  them  are  the 
ship  Lombard  and  U.  S.  S.  Corwin  besides  unnamed  barks, 
brigs  and  schooners.  The  sketches  are  accurate,  beautifully 
drawn  and  characteristic  of  the  various  vessels  of  the  period. 

PococK,  Nicholas,  England. 

Eighteen  pencil  sketches  of  naval  vessels,  some  but  char- 
acteristic bits,  others  more  complete,  which  appear  to  have 
been  made  as  memoranda  for  paintings.  Among  them  are, 
marked  in  pencil,  —  Arethusa,  Exeter,  New  Hope.  Jupiter  and 
Zephyr,  Sir  James  Chute  Comm.  Probably  all  are  by  Nicholas 
Pocock  and  drawn  in  the  late  18th  or  early  19th  centuries. 
Fifty- four  pencil  and  wash  sketches  of  vessels  of  various  types, 
mostly  fishing  and  pleasure  boats;  —  probably  all  are  by 
Nicholas  Pocock,  a  few  may  be  of  a  later  period.  The  Gore 
and  Pocock  sketches  were  in  a  collection  purchased  in  London 
as  the  Walters  portfolio,  bearing  a  label,  evidently  placed  there 
by  the  owner  which  is  inscribed,  —  "Walters,  Rough  Sketches 
and  Drawings,  chiefly  shipping,  by  Nicholas  Pocock  and  some 
sketches  of  boats  given  him  by  Charles  Gore."  All  of  the  sketch- 
es are  good  and  some  among  the  Gore  lot  remind  one  of  Anton 
Roux's  work. 


Roux,  Anton,  Marseilles. 

Twenty-seven  finished  water-color  sketches  of  vessels,  10^  x  7 
inches,  made  by  Anton  Roux  of  Marseilles  on  a  tour 
in  the  Mediterranean  in  1816.  The  first  page  of  the  leather 
covered  album  of  sketches  appears  to  have  been  torn  out,  the 
first  painting  is  of  a  ship-rigged  vessel  wearing  the  British  jack 
on  a  white  field  and  inscribed,  —  "  Yath  Louisa,  a  Mgr.  le  [name 
torn  off]  1816"  and  signed,  —  "Ante.  Roux  a  Marseille 
Delinea'r."  The  next  is  of  a  sail  boat  with  two  masts,  taking 
ashore  a  party  of  men  wearing  high  hats,  inscribed,  —  "Epoque 
du  Canot  du  Yath  Louisa,  a  Marseille  le  18  Dec'bre  1816." 
The  remaining  twenty-five  sketches  are  of  vessels  belonging 
to  the  countries  bordering  the  Mediterranean  and  include :  — 
"Chebec  a  Latin  Savoyard";  "Bombarde";  "Chebec  a 
Quarre,"  a  bark-rigged  vessel  with  flag  of  Sardinia;  "Pinque 
Genois";  "Feloque";  "Canari,"  with  Spanish  flag;  "Demi 
Galeres,"  with  flag  of  Savoy;  "Brick,"  with  Turkish  flag; 
"Bateau  de  peche  de  Frejus";  "Bateau  Boeuf  de  peche"; 
"Laout  Catalan";  "Tartane  de  peche  Provencale";  "Tra- 
bacolo";  "Sacolero";  "Polacre";  "Canot  Francais";  "Allege 
D'Arles  charge  de  Fourrage";  "Mistico,"  etc.  The  sketches 
are  exquisitely  drawn  in  Anton  Roux's  unexcelled  style  and 
are  perfect  in  their  original  coloring.  Copies  of  all  the  sketches 
were  made  by  M.  Macpherson  in  1910  for  the  Marine  Room 
cabinet  collection,  the  originals  being  kept  in  the  fireproof  at 
the  Essex  Institute. 


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PAINTINGS  AND   MODELS  OF  NAVAL  VESSELS 
OF  THE  UNITED   STATES 


Boston,  U.  S.  Frigate,  28  guns,  built  1799. 

Water-color,  after  French  painting  in  Allen's  Our  Naval  War 
with  France. 


Chesapeake,  U.  S.  Frigate,  engagement  with  H.  B.  M.   Shannon. 

Small  water-color  painting,  old  and  probably  copied  from 
some  early  painting  or  engraving  of  the  engagement  off  Salem, 
June  1,  1813.  C.  Also,  large  water-color  painting  by  E.  J. 
Russell  of  Boston  from  a  "colored  plate  published  in  London, 
1817."  €[  Also,  a  large  water-color  painting  by  Ross  Turner, 
1890,  representing  the  battle  at  sunset,  looking  towards  Salem. 
Owing  to  certain  inaccuracies  of  detail,  Mr.  Turner  preferred 
to  call  the  painting  "Naval  Engagement:  a  study."  C.  Also. 
aquatint  by  Jeakes  after  Thomas  Whitcombe.  This  memorable 
naval  battle  was  witnessed  at  a  distance  by  Salem  people  from 
the  South  church  steeple  and  from  Legg's  hill  and  other  points 
of  vantage  along  the  shore.  Accounts  of  the  funeral  of  Capt. 
Lawrence  and  Lt.  Ludlow  in  Salem,  when  their  bodies  were 
brought  from  Halifax  by  the  Salem  ship-masters  associated 
with  Capt.  George  Crowninshield,  and  their  temporar\^  entomb- 
ment in  Salem  until  removed  to  New  York,  may  be  found  in 
the  Sketch  of  Salem,  by  Osgood  and  Batchelder  (p.  52)  and  in 
other  local  and  general  histories.  E.  S.  Maclay  in  History  of 
the  U.  S.  Navy,  vol.  I,  p.  466,  incorrectly  states  that  the 
bodies  of  Lawrence  and  Ludlow  were  taken  to  Boston  and 
funeral  services  held  there. 

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CAPTURE   OF   THE    FRIG  \TE    "ESSEX"    BY    H.  B.  M.     - FHOEBE' 
VALPARAISO.   CHILE,    1814 
Painting  by  George  Ropes,  1815. 


AND    "CHERUB-    AT 


FRIGATES    "CHESAPEAKE"    AND    "SHANNON"    ENGAGING    OFF   SALEM,    JUNE    1,    ISKi 
Painting  by  Ross  Turner.  189.'S. 


Constellation,  U.  S.  Frigate,  built  1797. 

Engagement  with  Insurgente,  1799;  water-color  painting 
after  illustration  in  Allen's  Naval  War  with  France.  C.  Also, 
on  two  large  punch-bowls  of  Liverpool  ware  given  the  Salem 
East  India  Marine  Society  by  Capt.  George  Hodges  in  1800. 

Constitution,  U.  S.  Frigate,  built  at  Boston,  1797,  2200  tons. 

Full  rigged  model,  five  feet  long,  made  before  July,  1813, 
when  it  was  given  to  the  Salem  East  India  Marine  Society  by 
Capt.  Isaac  Hull.   It  is  the  only  accurate,  contemporary  model 
known  and  was  followed  by  the  U.  S.  naval  authorities  when 
restoring    the    Constitution    at    Boston,    1907.     The    museum 
possesses  a  signed  letter  from  Captain  Hull  dated  August  5, 
1813,  referring  to  his  gift  of  this  model;  also,  a  most  interesting 
bill  of  May,  1814,  acknowledging  the  receipt  of  twelve  dollars 
by  Thomas  Webb,  in  behalf  of  "EngHsh  Prisoners  of  War" 
for  "Repairing,  &c.,  &c.  the  Constitution."     It  is  said  that 
the  model  was  slightly  damaged  at  a  banquet  given  to  Com. 
Bainbridge    at    Hamilton    Hall    late  in    1813    where  a  salute 
in  his  honor   was  fired   from  miniature   guns.     The   British 
prisoners  were  held  in  a  "guard  ship"  in  charge  of  Captains 
[Thomas]    Webb   and    Upton.     Bentley's   Diary,  IV,    p.    291, 
Oct.  7,  1814,  says,  —  "It  [the  prison  ship]  lays  at  the  end  of 
the  wharf  in  the  North  river  below  the  UniversaHst  Meeting 
House  and  is  left  entirely  dry  half  the  time."     In  this  vessel 
were  the  "prisoners  of  war"  who  repaired  the  model  of  the 
frigate  which  possibly  was  the  means  of   their    incarceration. 
CAlso,  oil   painting  about   1840.     C.  Also,   original   water- 
color  painting.  Constitution  and  Java,  by  George  Ropes  of  Salem, 
1814,    and   reproductions   of   two   others   by   him.      C  Also, 
half-hull  model  made  from  the  original  designs  by  Herbert 
M.  C.  Skinner,  1907.     €.  Also,  scroll-work  billet-head  of  the 
Constitution,  7  feet  by  3  feet  by  18  inches,  said  to  have  been 
removed  in  1830;  a  fine  piece  of  carved  work,  somewhat  decayed 
but  now  restored.     C  Also,  numerous  photographs,  cuts,  news- 
paper and  magazine  articles  relating  to  the  Constitution  and 
restoration  of  the  frigate  in  1907  and  four  replicas  in  bronze 
of  gold  medals   awarded   commanders  of  the   Constitution  for 
successful  actions. 

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Dewey,  Dry  Dock,  U.  S.  Naval. 

Water-color  painting  by  J.  W.  Aylward,  who  accompanied 
the  expedition,  showing  the  Dewey  in  tow  of  U.  S.  S.  Glacier, 
Brutus,  Caesar  and  Potomac  passing  Teneriffe  on  the  way  to 
Manila  Bay,  1904. 

Essex,  U.  S.  Frigate,  built  at  Salem  m  1799.     [See  Paintings  of  Mer- 
chant Vessels.] 

Ohio,  U.S.  Ship-of-the-Line ,  built  1820. 

Full  rigged  model,  four  feet  long,  made  about  1850  by  Enoch 
Fuller  of  Salem  from  accurate  measurements.  Mr.  Fuller 
made  a  passage  in  the  Ohio  from  San  Francisco. 

Ontario,  U.  S.  S.,  built  at  Baltimore,  1813. 

Water-color  painting  signed,  —  "A.  Carlotta  painted."  The 
picture  is  stiffly  but  accurately  and  microscopically  painted,, 
each  rope  showing  the  twist.  It  was  done  at  Port  Mahon 
in  the  Mediterranean  in  1822.  A  long  inscription  is  omitted 
here. 

Potomac,  U.  S.  S. 

Water-color  after  an  engraving,  1832,  from  a  painting  by 
J.  Scarll.  The  Potomac  was  sent  in  1832  to  inflict  punishment 
on  the  native  village  of  Quallah  Battoo  on  the  Sumatra  coast 
for  an  attack  on  the  ship  Friendship  (2d)  of  Salem  in  1831 
when  five  of  the  crew  were  killed.  [See  E.  I.  Hist.  Coll.,  vol. 
I.  p.  15,  for  a  full  account  of  the  affair.] 

Salem,  U.  S.  Cruiser,  built  at  Quincy,  Mass.,  1907. 

Colored  photograph.  C.  Also,  photographs,  plans,  cards, 
magazine  articles  and  other  matter  relating  to  the  Salem,  her 
launching,  and  "Salem  Day"  when  she  visited  the  harbor  of 
Salem,  1909.  C  Also,  bronze  figurehead,  a  shield  with 
scrolls,  weighing  3800  pounds,  removed  from  the  Salem  about 
1912. 

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CHINCHA    ISLANDS 
With  guano  ships  in  foreground. 


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MOCHA,    ARABIA 
Ships  waiting  to  load  with  coffee. 


South  Carolina,  ship,  1790.     [See  Paintings  of  Merchant  Vessels.] 

United  States,  U.  S.  Frigate,  built  1797. 

Water-color  after  French  painting  from  Allen's  Naval  War 
with  France.  C.  Also,  engagement  with  the  Macedonian,  an 
old  water-color  painting  inscribed,  —  "The  United  States 
Friga  and  Macedonia  Ingageing  in  1812." 

ViNCENNES,  U.  S.  S. 

Oil  painting  after  sketch  by  Com.  Wilkes  while  on  the  explor- 
ing expedition  1837-1842,  showing  the  Vincennes  in  Dis- 
appointment Bay,  Antarctic  Continent,  south  of  Australia, 
January  23,  1840.  [See  engraving  by  C.  A.  Jewett  in  Wilkes 
U.  S.  Exploring  Expedition,  vol.  II,  p.  310.]  This  painting 
is  exactly  reproduced  on  p.  106  in  Twenty  years  before  the 
Mast  by  Charles  Erskine,  from  whose  son  the  painting  was 
obtained.  In  addition  to  the  above  paintings  there  are  in  the 
cabinet  and  folio  collections,  lithographs,  prints,  and  photo- 
graphs, either  from  old  paintings  or  direct,  of  the  important 
vessels  of  the  U.  S.  Navy  from  its  beginnings  to  the  present 
time. 


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PAINTINGS  OF   MISCELLANEOUS  NAVAL  VESSELS 


Nashville,  C.  S.  A.  ship. 

Oil  painting  signed  "D.  McFarlane,  1864,"  showing  the 
Nashville  destroying  the  ship  Harvey  Birch. 

[See  Harvey  Birch  in  list  of  Paintings  of  Merchant  Vessels.] 

Monarch,  H.  B.  M.  ship. 

Oil  painting  by  Harry  Brown  of  Portland,  showing  the 
Monarch  off  Portland  light,  Maine,  bringing  the  body  of  George 
Peabody  of  London  to  America  for  burial,  February,  1870. 

Anson,  H.  B.  M.  frigate. 

Water-color,  somewhat  defaced,  showing  the  frigate  wrecked 
at  Mounts  Bay,  Cornwall,  England,  1807,  signed,  —  "W.  H. 
Smith,"  paper  water-marked,  —  "Whatman,  1825." 

Naval  Battle  between  British  and  French  ships. 

Oil  painting  by  George  Ropes  of  Salem,  1815. 

Naval  Battle  between  the  Quebec  Frigate  and  the  French  Surveillante. 

Oil  painting  by  George  Ropes  of  Salem,  1815,  after  an  early 
engraving  from  a  French  painting. 


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PAINTINGS  OF  WHARVES,  HARBORS  AND  FOREIGN  PORTS 


North  American 

Crowninshield's  Wharf,  Salem.  Copy  by  M.  Macpherson  in 
water-color,  reduced  in  size,  of  large  oil  painting  by  George 
Ropes  of  Salem,  1806,  showing  America  (4th)  at  end  of  wharf, 
the  ship  Fmne  next.     Original  at  the  Essex  Institute. 

Derby  Wharf,  Salem.  Oil  painting  by  Porter  Brown  of  Salem, 
1879,  showing  the  wharf  before  the  destruction  of  many  of 
the  old  store-houses. 

Salem  Harbor.  Oil  painting  made  for  the  entrance  door  of  the 
rooms  of  the  East  India  Marine  Society  in  the  Pickman  build- 
ing. It  shows  Salem  harbor  with  the  Neck  in  the  distance  and 
a  ship,  probably  the  Mount  Vernon,  in  the  foreground.  Signed,  — 
"M.  Corne  pinxit  1805."  A  band  with  inscription  was  added 
by  Bartol  about  1825  when  the  society  moved  to  the  new 
East  India  Marine  Hall. 


European 
Naples.     Quaint  water-color  showing  mole  and  vessels,  about  1820. 

Naples.  Vesuvius  in  eruption.  Water-color  with  American  ship  in 
foreground. 

Naples.  Two  smaller  water-colors  with  Vesuvius  in  eruption,  — 
day  and  night,  —  two  ships  in  foreground. 

Portoferrajo,  Island  of  Elba.  Water-color  painting  by  Gustavo 
Adolfo  Mallini  made  for  Capt.  George  Crowninshield  while 
visiting  there  on  his  voyage  in  the  Cleopatra's  Barge,  1817. 

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South  American 

Chincha  'Islands,  off  the  coast  of  Peru.     xA.  rude  oil  painting  about 
1845  - 1855,  showing  guano  vessels  in  the  foreground. 

Para.  Brazil.     Large  oil  painting  of  city  with  harbor  and  vessels. 


African  and  Beyond 
Elmina,  Gold  Coast.  British  West  Africa.     Oil  painting M.1679 

Capeto\vn,  Africa.  Oil  painting  by  M.  Corne,  1804,  made  for  a 
fireboard  in  the  rooms  of  the  East  India  Marine  Society  in 
Pickman  building M.  128 

Zanzibar,  Africa.     Water-color  painting  about  1850 M.  1680 

Mocha,  Arabia.  Water-color  painting  about  1820  - 1825,  with 
coffee  ships  in  foreground M .  472 

Sunda  Straits?  Oil  painting  by  Chinese  artist,  about  1840  - 1850^. 
May  be  near  Penang,  Batavia  or  Singapore M.  295 

Chinese 

Canton  Factories.  Oil  painting  by  Corne,  1804,  for  a  fireboard 
in  the  rooms  of  the  East  India  Marine  Society  in  Pickman 
building M.  292 

The  Canton  Factories,  the  residences  of  the  factors  or  agents  of  commercial 
houses  doing  business  in  that  part  of  China,  of  the  foreign  consuls  and  the  Chinese 
hong  merchants  thru  whom  all  business  was  transacted,  occupied  a  small  territory 
at  Canton  on  the  shore  of  the  Choo,  Pearl  or  Canton  river  set  apart  and  restricted 
to  these  purposes.  Fires  in  1822  and  at  other  times  destroyed  portions  of  the  settle- 
ment and  in  1856  the  entire  establishment  was  wiped  out  during  the  war  between 
the  Chinese  and  the  British  forces.  Since  then  the  little  island  of  Shamein  has  been 
taken  for  the  foreign  residences;  it  lies  just  beyond  the  old  settlement  and  before 
its  present  use  was  a  sand  or  mud  flat  with  small  forts  upon  it.  The  Canton  Fac- 
tories has  always  been  one  of  the  most  widely  known  commercial  settlements  in  the 
world.  [See,  Description  of  Canton,  Chinese  Repository  press.  Canton,  1834: 
Dr.  Kerr's  Canton  Guide.  Hong  Kong  and  Canton,  1880:  Fan  Kwae  at  Canton 
(Old  Canton),  William  C.  Hunter,  London,  1882:  Encyclopaedia  Britannica.  under 
Canton.] 

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Canton  Factories,  1830  to  1840 M.  725 

Canton  Factories,  1840  to  1850,  large  painting M.  250 

Canton  Factories,  before   1850.    Dent  &  Co.  flag  on  a  yawl  in 
foreground M.  1731 

Canton  Factories,  about  1850 M.  1685 

Canton  Factories,  about  1850 M.  2310 

Canton  Factories,  about  1850 M.  293 

Canton,  or  Pearl  River,  Tiger's  Mouth,  about  1830  M.  290 

Canton,  or  Pearl  River,  Tiger's  Mouth M.  2307 

Canton,  or  Pearl  River,  about  1840,  with  junks  in  foreground .... 
M.  720 

Canton,  or  Pearl  River,  before  1850,  with  government  junk  .M.  719 

Canton,  or  Pearl  River,  with  walled  garden  on  island,  and  junk  . . 
M.  2309 

Canton,  or  Pearl  River,  with  fast  boat M.  721 

Hong  Kong,  about  1850,  looking  from  Simoon  pass M.  297 

Macao,  about  1840 M.  212 

Macao,  1840  to  1850.     A  large  painting M.  2429 

Macao,  before  1850 M.  1732 

Macao,  about  1850 M.  289 

Macao,  about  1850 M.  2312 

Whampoa,  1830  to  1840,  with  pagoda  and  British  East-Indiamen .... 

M.  291 

Whampoa,  about  1840,  with  pagoda  and  East-Indiamen M.  213 

Whampoa,  about  1840,  with  East-Indiamen  in  foreground  . .  .  M.  217 
Whampoa,  1840  to  1850,  with  hulk  and  ships  in  foreground . .  M.  247 
Whampoa,  about  1850,  with  schooner  Brenda  and  opium  ship.M.  1684 
Whampoa,  about  1850,  pagoda  anchorage M.  2308 

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Whampoa,  about  1850 M.  2311 

Whampoa,  about  1850,  with  English  cemetery  in  foreground.  .M.  296 
Whampoa,  about  1855,  Thomas  Hunt  &  Co.  ships,  etc.,  large  . .  .  M.  246 
Whampoa,  about  1855,  Thomas  Hunt  &  Co.  ships,  large ....  M.  249 
Whampoa,  about  1850,  many  ships  in  foreground M.  2496 


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CANTON    FACTORIES    ABOUT    1840 


SHAMIEN    CONSULATES,    CANTON.    ABOUT    1860 
These  replaced  the  Canton  Factories  destroyed  in  1852. 


MODELS 

Rigged   models 
The  measurements  are  the  lengths  of  the  models  in  feet  and  inches. 
Alabama,  fishing  schooner,  of  Rockport,  Mass.,  1894,  3  feet. 

America  (4th),  privateer  ship,  of  Salem,  built  as  a  merchantman, 
1804,  altered  and  cut  down,  1812,  and  made  331  tons,  2K  feet. 

A  very  fine  model  made  about  1812-1814. 

Azalea,  schooner  yacht,  about  1870,  18  inches. 

Model  said  to  have  been  made  by  Captain  Robert  B.  Forbes 
of  Boston. 

Baltic,  steamship,  model  by  George  Glazier  of  Salem,  1854,  18  inches. 

Benjamin  F.  Phillips,  fishing  schooner  built  at  Essex,  Mass.,  1901, 
3  feet. 

A  fine  model  by  Arthur  Binney  of  Boston,  scale  f  inch  to 
1  foot. 

Cadet,  schooner,  14  inches. 

Model  made  by  a  prisoner  in  the  Essex  County  Jail,  Salem. 

Camel,  brig,  of  Salem,  captured  from  the  British  in  1814,  3  feet. 
Model  by  Daniel  C.  Becket  about  1870  from  data. 

Canada,  steamship,  1860,  9  inches. 

Model  made  by  a  sailor  on  the  ship;  in  a  box  frame. 

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Constitution,  U.  S.  S.,  1797,  5  feet. 

A  fine  contemporary  model,  1813,  for  description  see  under 
Paintings  and  Models  of  Naval  vessels  of  the  United  States. 
C  Another  by  Capt.  Everdean  of  Gloucester,  with  sails.  4  feet. 


Discovery,  fishing  schooner,  name  fanciful,  period  of  1890,  28  inches. 
A  fine  model  by  Hollis  Burgess. 

Eagle,  pinkie,  14  inches. 

A  fine  model  by  Arthur  Binney  of  Boston,  1906.  scale, 
I  inch  to  1  foot,  from  original  vessel  owned  by  J.  Templeman 
Coolidge,  Esq.     [See  Tiger.] 

Esther,  sloop  yacht,  period  of  1890,  3  feet. 

Model  by  Edwin  Humphreys  of  Danvers,  Mass. 

Friendship,  ship,  of  Salem,  1797,  342  tons,  9  feet. 

This  model,  one  of  the  finest  and  the  largest  in  the  collection, 
was  made  by  the  ship's  carpenter,  Thomas  Russell,  during  a 
voyage  to  Sumatra,  for  the  son  of  the  commander,  Capt.  William 
Story  of  Salem.  It  proved  too  large  for  the  house  and  was 
given  to  the  East  India  Marine  Society  in  1803  by  Capt.  Story. 
The  brass  guns  on  the  model  were  made  by  a  native  metal 
worker  at  Palembang,  Sumatra. 

In  the  Daughters  of  the  Revolution  magazine,  October, 
1916,  Edgar  S.  Maclay,  in  his  article  entitled  Our  Sea  Forces 
in  the  Revolution,  uses  a  deck  view  of  this  model  of  the  Friend- 
ship and  describes  it  as  "a  29-gun  ship  of  the  Revolution" 
and  refers  to  the  spaces  on  the  deck,  the  working  of  the  guns, 
etc.,  knowing  that  the  Friendship  was  a  merchant  vessel, 
built  in  1797,  as  the  label  clearly  showed  in  the  photograph 
which  he  had  in  his  possession  and  which  he  used. 

Great  Eastern,  steamship,  British,  1859,  3  feet. 


TIGER'S    MOUTH    ABOUT    1860 
On  the  Pearl  river  below  Canton. 


HONG    KONG    ABOUT    1850 


Herbert  Fuller,  barkentine,  of   Machias,  Maine,  1890,  781  tons, 
23^  feet. 

Accurate  model  made  by  order  of  the  court  for  the  trial 
of  Thomas  Bram  in  Boston,  1897-1898. 


Ionia,  bark,  of  Salem,  1847,  296  tons,  2  feet. 


La  Grange,  bark,  of  Salem,  1835,  3  feet. 

Model  by  Dr.  Levi  Saunders  of  Gloucester,  a  member  of  the 
company  which  sailed  on  the  bark  for  California,  1849.  [See 
Paintings  of  Merchant  Vessels.] 


Lena  M.,  Block  Island  Boat,  14  inches. 

A  fine  model  of  a  fast  disappearing  type,  by  H.  E.  Boucher 
of  New  York,  1910,  scale  ^4  inch  to  1  foot. 


Mary  Felker,  schooner,  of  Gloucester,  1895,  3}4  feet. 
[See  Paintings  of  Merchant  Vessels,] 

Ohio,  U.S.  S.,  1820,  2750  tons,  5  feet. 

A  fine  model  by  Enoch  Fuller  of  Salem,  1850.     [See  Naval 
Vessels.] 

Petrel,  sloop  yacht,  period  of  1890,  4  feet. 

Model  by  Edwin  Humphreys  of  Danvers,  Mass. 

Rebecca,  fishing  schooner,  of  Marblehead,  1798,  18  inches. 

Model  made  about  1892.     [See  Collins,  N.  E.  Magazine,  vol. 
XVIII,  p.  345.] 

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Rising  States,  brig,  date  unknown,  late  18th  or  early  19th  century, 
3  feet. 

Nothing  is  known  of  the  history  of  this  very  interestmg 
model.  It  is  thought  to  have  been  in  the  Trask  family  and 
was  originally  given  the  Essex  Institute  about  1860.  A  Rising 
States  is  recorded  among  the  authorized  privateers  of  the 
Revolution,  —  "a  brig  with  20  guns  (seventeen  swivels)  and 
7  cohorns,  registered  to  Massachusetts,  ICO  men,  Capt.  J. 
Thompson,  1776  -  1783."  [See  Emmons,  The  Navy  of  the 
U.  S.  etc.,  1775  -  1853,  p.  160.] 

Sea  Fox,  bark,  whaler,  of  New  Bedford,  1874,  18  inches. 
A  fine  model  fully  equipped,  with  sails  set. 

Sea  Witch,  ship,  period  of  1890,  18  inches. 

A  fine  model  by  Joseph  Hartwell,  name  fanciful. 

Sparrowhawk,  early  17th  century,  16  inches. 

Model  made  for  Exposition,  probably  1892,  to  represent  the 
vessel  wrecked  on  Cape  Cod,  1626,  on  her  way  from  England 
to  Virginia,  the  ribs  of  which,  since  recovered,  are  preserved 
in  Pilgrim  Hall,  Plymouth,  Mass. 

Tiger,  pinkie,  of  Gloucester,  period  of  1820,  16  inches. 

Model  made  for  Exposition,  probably  1892.     [See  Eogle.] 


Rigged  Models  Without  Names 

Bark,  period  of  1830,  10>2  inches. 

Model  by  Capt.  Clarence  of  Salem. 

Bark,  period  of  1870,  2  feet. 

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MACAO    ABOUT    1840 


WHAMPOA   ABOUT    1840 
Port  of  Canton. 


Bark,  period  of  1890,  3  feet. 

Model  by  John  Adams  of  Salem,  1904. 

Brig,  probably  a  French  model,  late  18th  or  early  19th  century,  3>^ 
feet. 

Model  imported  by  Stanford  White  of  New  York  and  later 
owned  by  F.  D.  Millett  who  lost  his  life  on  the  Titanic.  The 
model  was  given  the  museum  by  his  son. 

Brig,  American  (so  intended),  about  1850,  3>^  feet. 

A  curious  and  interesting  model  made  of  palm  pith  strips 
by  natives  on  the  west  coast  of  Africa  about  1852,  expressing 
their  ideas  of  the  form  and  proportions  of  an  American  brig. 

Brig,  hermaphrodite,  about  1860.  12  inches. 

Brig,  hermaphrodite,  3  inches. 

Miniature  model  by  John  Leavitt  of  Lynn,  1919. 

Brigantine,  period  of  1860,  4  feet. 

Model  by  William  B.  Gray  of  Salem. 

Dory,  three  models  covering  the  period  from  1830  - 1890,  1  foot  to  18 
'  inches;  one  is  a  fisherman's,  with  oars,  seats,  and  fittings. 

Gondola,  Venice,  with  complete  fittings,  scale  gV'  1894,    24  inches. 

Life-Boat,  original  model  in  copper  by  Joseph  Francis  of  the  life- 
boat of  his  invention  for  which  he  was  awarded  a  gold  medal 
by  Congress.  A  replica  of  the  medal  in  bronze  is  in  the  col- 
lection. 

Schooner,  fisherman,  period  of  1830,  3  feet. 
Model  by  Daniel  C.  Becket,  1870. 

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Schooner,  period  of  1830,  10  inches. 

Schooner,  pilot  boat,  "Yankee"  on  silk  flag,  16  inches. 
Model  by  Daniel  C.  Becket  about  1870. 

Schooner,  period  of  1870,  sails  set,  made  for  a  court  case,  20  inches. 

Schooner,  period  of  1875.  3^  feet. 

Schooner,  period  of  1880,  2  feet. 

Schooner,  fisherman,  1895,  with  boats,  nets,  etc.,  4^2  feet.  Marked 
"Star  Brand  Gloucester." 

Schooner,  period  of  1890,  2  feet. 

Schooners,  two  groups  in  relief,  in  frames,  with  painted  backgrounds, 
made  by  sailors  about  1890. 

Ship,  on  stand,  wood,  paper  sails,  made  at  Mill  Prison,  England,  by  a 
prisoner  of  war,  1779,  8K  inches. 

Ship,  middle  18th  century,  rigging  damaged  and  partly  gone,  3   feet. 

An  interesting  old  model  formerly  owned  in  the  Crownin- 
shield  family. 

Ship,  of  bone,  on  stand,  with  railing,  made  at  Dartmoor  Prison,  by  a 
prisoner  of  war,  1812  -  1815.  Gift  of  Com.  Bainbridge, 
U.  S.  N.,  1822,5  inches. 

Ship,  hull  of  clay,  rigging  of  glass,  1818,  l^^o  inches. 

Ship-of-the-Line,  British,  hull  of  dark  wood,  masts  and  yards  of 
bone,  period  of  1820,  18  inches. 

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Winner  of  the  fisherman's  race  in  1904.     Model  by  Arthur  Binney. 


PINKIE    -EAGLE- 
Model  by  Arthur  Binney. 


Ship,  of  glass,  about  1820,  in  original  case,  9  inches. 

Ship,  of  glass,  made  in  1830,  13  inches. 

Ship,  period  of  1830  -  1840,  with  sails,  6  inches. 

Ship,  period  of  1840,  3  feet. 

A  fine  model  by  Enoch  Fuller  of  Salem. 

Ship,  clipper,  a  finely  made  model  with  sails  carved  from  wood,  period 
of  1850  -  1860,  20  inches. 

Ship,  period  of  1860,  13  inches. 

Ship,  period  of  1880,  2  feet. 

Ship,  of  ivory,  with  small  boat  in  tow,  deposited,  6y^  inches. 

Ship's  Boat,  about  1840;  6  inches. 

Ship's  Boat,  1880,  10>^  inches. 

Made  on  ship  Mindoro  of  Salem  by  the  ship's  carpenter. 

Steamship,  Boston  and  Halifax  line,  period  of  1890,  18  inches. 

Whaler,  brig,  period  of  1850,   14  inches. 
A  Provincetown  model. 

Whale  Boat,  with  fittings  ready  for  the  capture,  sails  set,  17  inches. 
Model  by  V.  J.  Slocum,  1900. 

Vessels  in  bottles  (4),  also  other  designs  (8),  made  by  sailors,  4  to  10 
inches  high. 

The  designs  are  ships,  reels,  frameworks,  etc. ;  some  are  very 
complicated  and  the  stoppers  in  two  of  the  bottles  are  ingenious 
puzzles. 

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Full  Hull  Models 

Model,  to  show  the  construction  of  a  ship,  6  feet. 

Made  by  Eugenio  Aug.  Bahia,  ship-builder  of  Ponta  Delgada, 
Azores,  1895.  This  model  received  a  diploma  at  the  District 
Exposition  at  Ponta  Delgada  in  1895. 

Model,  to  show  construction,  period  of  1860;  said  to  be  a  model  of 
the  U.  S.  S.  Hartford,  but  doubtful;  3>^  feet. 

Model,  hull    with  remains  of    masts,  probably    brig-rigged,  about 
1820,  17  inches. 


Model,  hull,  formerly  with  masts,  "Moll"  on  bow,  period  of  1830, 
from  Joshua  Brown,  1859,  4  feet. 


Model,  hull,  masts  gone,  period  of  1840,  14  inches. 

Model  by  Captain  Joseph    Hardy    Millett,  commander   of 
ship   Witch-of-ihe-Wave. 


Model,  pilot  boat,  masts  gone,  18  inches. 

Model   by   Capt.   James   W.    Chever,    commander   of   the 
privateer  ship  America,  for  his  son,  about  1835. 


Model,  probably  Essex  built  schooner,  period  of  1850,  16  inches. 

Model,  type  of  fishing  schooner  of  1850,  "James  of  Salem  Mass." 
on  stern,  22  inches. 


Model,  type  of  fishing  schooner  of  1890,  "Ocean  Eagle"  on  stern, 
3  feet. 


Model,  three  hull  models,  period  of  1840  -  1860,  18-20  inches. 

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BRIG   "CAMEL"   OF   SALEM,    1814 
Model  by  Daniel  C.  Becket. 


SHIP   "FRIENDSHIP"   OF   SALEM 
Model  by  Thcmas  Russell.  1803. 


Model,  the  launching  of  a  ship,  full  hull  with  all  attachments    for 
the  launching,  period  of  1840. 

Model  by  Job  Young,  1904. 

Row  Boat,  made  of  paper  by  Walter  L.  Dean  at  City  Point,  Boston , 
1875,  full  size,  10  feet  by  3  3^  feet. 

This  boat  and  another  built  at  the  same  time  have  seen  ser  - 
vice  and  proved  practical. 

Half -Hull  Models 
The  models,  unless  otherwise  stated,  are  from  2K  to  5  feet  in  length. 

Alcyone,  bark,  built  at  Stockton,  Maine,  1865,  627  tons . 

Alert,  yacht,  built  at  Salem,  1848. 

Alice,  schooner,  built  by  Joshua  Brown  at  Salem,  1871,  60  tons. 

Alice  Mandell,  ship,  of  New  Bedford,  1851,  425  tons. 

Alice  Wood,  probably  a  sail-boat  of  Salem. 

Almira  T.  Roland,  schooner,  built  by  John  F.  Hawkins  at  Port  Jeffer- 
son,  N.  Y.,    1861,    195   tons. 
A   block   model   in   transverse  sections. 

Amazon,  brig,  built  by  Enos  Briggs  at  Salem,  1824,  202  tons. 

America,  schooner  yacht,  built  by  George  Steers  at  New  York,  1851, 
.    171  tons. 

Model  by  Augustus  A.  Smith  of  Salem.  C  Also,  litho- 
graph and  early  woodcuts.  €.  Also,  tiller  used  on  the  yacht, 
1852. 

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Aurora,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Chelsea,  1853,  1396  tons. 

Australia,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Medford.  Mass..  1849,  534  tons. 

Bertha,  bark,  of  New  Bedford,  1877.  437  tons. 

Black  Hawk,  ship,  built  at  Newburyport,  1858,  941  tons. 

Bonanza,  schooner,  built  by  Ira  Story  at  Danversport,  Mass.,  1861- 
1865. 

Boyd  and  Leeds,  schooner,  built  by  J.  Horace  Burnham  at  Essex, 
Mass. 

Sixteen   other    schooners    were    built    from  the    same    model, 
1875  - 1895. 

Thomas  Brundage  Dorothy  E.  L.  Spirling 

Mattie  Brundage  Mary  Gleason  Flora  J.  Sears 

Pythian  Etta  Mildred  Dorothy  (2d) 

Mary  P.  Mosquito  Appomattox  Thotnas  J.  Carroll 

Agnes  Gleason  Gladys  and  Sabia  Mary  H.  Greer 
Mary  Edith 

Child  of  the  Regiment,  ship,  built  at  Thomaston,  Maine,   1858, 
1193  tons. 

Coeur  de  Lion,  ship,  built  by  George  Raynes  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H., 
1854,  1098  tons. 

Colin   E.  McNeil,  bark,  built  by   Joshua   Brown  at   Salem,  1865, 
700  tons. 

Commonwealth,  schooner,  built  by  Willard  A.  and  Daniel  A.  Burn- 
ham  at  Essex,  Mass. 

Confidence,  bark,  built  by  Crandall  at  Newport.  R.  I.,  1837. 


BARK    "LA    GRANGE-    OF    SALEM 
Sailed  for  California  in  1849.     Model  by  Dr.  Levi  Saunders. 


BARKENTINE    -'HERBERT   FILLER' 
Model  made  in  1897 


Constitution,  U.  S.  Frigate,  built  at  Boston,  1797,  2200  tons. 
Model  by  Herbert  M.  C.  Skinner  from  original  designs. 

D.  A.  Brayton,  barkentine,  built  at  Fall  River,  1873,  530  tons. 

David  B.  Newcomb,  schooner,  built  by  Joshua  Brown  at  Salem,  1860, 
64  tons. 

D.  Chapin,  bark,  built  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  1869. 

Dash,  row  boat,  16  inches. 

Built  from  same  model  as  Stella. 

Delight,  bark,  built  by  E.  F.  Miller  at  Salem,  1855,  550  tons. 

Delphos,  ship,  built  at  Salem,  1818,  338  tons. 

Derby,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  John  Taylor  at  Chelsea,  Mass.,  1855, 
1062  tons. 

[See  Paintings  of  Merchant  Vessels.] 

Dictator,  schooner,  built  by  E.  F.  Miller  at  Salem,  1853,  200  tons. 

Eliza,  ketch,  of  Salem,  built  by  Enos  Briggs  at  Salem,  1794,  184  tons. 
24  inches. 

Esther,  sloop  yacht. 

Model  by  Edwin  Humphreys  of  Danvers,  Mass.,  1890. 

Essex,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  by  C.  H.  Currier  &  Co.  at  Newburyport, 
1870,  662  tons. 

EUROPA,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  by  Isaac  Hall  &  Co.  at  Cohasset,  Mass., 
1849,  397  tons.  Purchased  by  Stone,  Silsbee  &  Pickman  of 
Salem  for  $29,000. 

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Fearless,   ship,  of  Boston,  built  at  East  Boston  from  designs  by 
Samuel  A.  Pook,  1853.  1183  tons. 

Flying  Fish,  schooner,  of  New  London,  Conn.,  formerly  of  Gloucester, 
Mass.,  1870,  75  tons. 

Floradora,  sloop,  built  at  Essex,  Mass.,  1905. 

Florence   Howard,    four-masted   schooner,   built   by  the    Atlantic 
Shipping  Co.  at  Stonington,  Conn.,  1909,  863  tons. 

Model  by  the  designer  of  the  vessel,  Herbert  M.  C. 
Skinner,  scale  i  inch  to  1  foot. 

Flying  Cloud,  clipper  ship,  built  by  Donald  McKay  at  Boston,  1851, 
1783  tons. 

Model  by  Herbert  M.  C.  Skinner,  scale  i  inch  to  1  foot. 
The  Flying  Cloud  twice  made  the  passage  from  New  York  to 
San  Francisco  in  89  days,  thus  holding  the  record  among  clipper 
ships;  her  commander,  Josiah  Perkins  Creesy  was  bom  in 
Marblehead  in  1814  and  in  his  later  years  lived  in  Salem. 
All  of  Mr.  Skinner's  models  are  worked  out  with  great  accuracy- 
and  are  beautifully  finished.  To  give  some  idea  of  the  labor 
value  alone  of  a  finely  made  half-hull  model,  Mr.  Skinner 
writes,  —  "The  model  of  the  Flying  Cloud  represents  151 
hours  of  actual  work  besides  39  hours  more  spent  in  making 
drawings  and  patterns."     It  is  the  time,  too,  of  a  skilled  artisan. 

Forrester,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  at  Newbury,  1839,  427  tons. 

Frank,  schooner,  built  at  Chester,  N.  S.,  1860. 

Frank  G.  Rich,  schooner,  of   Salem,  built  by  Willard  A.  Burnham 
at  Essex,  Mass. 

Genevieve  Loretto,  schooner,  built  by  Horace  Burnham  at  Essex, 

Mass. 

The  schooner  Trafton  was  built  from  the  same  model. 
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Gemsbock,  bark,  of  New  York,  built  at  Boston,  1857,  476  tons. 

Glide,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  by  E.  F.  Miller  at  Salem.  1861,  495  tons. 

Golden  West,  clipper  ship,  built  by  Paul  Curtis  at  Boston,  1852, 
1443  tons. 

GOLCONDA,  bark,  built  at  Boston,  1866,  521  tons. 

Guide,  bark,  of  Salem,  built  by  E.  F.  Miller  at  Salem,  1857,  495  tons. 

Hancock,  bark,  built  at  Bucksport,  Maine,  1869,  412  tons. 

Harry  Bluff,  schooner,  built  by  Joshua  Brown  at  Salem,  1870,  84 
tons. 

Harry  Knowlton,  schooner,  built  at  Staten  Island,  N.  Y.,   1890, 
317  tons. 

Model  by  Herbert  M.  C.  Skinner,  scale  i  inch  to  1  foot, 
The  Harry  Knowlton,  loaded  with  coal,  on  February  11,  1907. 
in  Long  Island  Sound,  struck  the  Providence  -  bound  steamer 
Larchmont,  formerly  the  International  Line  steamer  Cumberland, 
which  sunk  in  twelve  minutes  with  a  loss  of  89  passengers  and 
44  of  the  crew. 

Idaho,  schooner,  built  by  Joshua  Brown  at  Salem,  1860,  140  tons. 

Iolanthe,  schooner,  built  by  Ira  Story  at  Danversport,  Mass.,  1861  - 
1865. 

John  Drew,  schooner,  built  on  the  South  Shore,  Mass. 

Kingfisher,  bark,  built  at  New  Bedford,  1856,  451  tons. 

There  are  two  vessels  of  the  name,  the  other  built  at  Gardiner, 
Maine,  1853,  but  the  model  is  probably  of  the  one  first  given. 

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La  Plata,  bark,  built  by  E.  F.  Miller  at  Salem,  1850,  496  tons. 

Letitia,  schooner,  built  by  Joshua  Brown  at  Salem,  1850,  496  tons. 

Lewis  Osborne,  tug-boat,  built  at  Essex,  Mass.,  designed  by  Archer 
B.  Poland. 

Lizzie  A.  Robie,  schooner,  built  by  Joshua  Brown  at  Salem,  1862, 
162  tons. 

Lottie  S.  Moulton,  schooner,  built  by  Willard  A.  Burnham  at  Essex, 
Mass.,  1881. 

Lucia,  schooner,  built  by  Owen  S.  Lantz  at  Gloucester,  Mass. 

M.  Shepard,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  by  Samuel  Lewis  at  Salem,  1850, 
167  tons. 

Maria  Theresa,  schooner,  of  Salem,  built  at  Newburyport,   1848, 
148  tons. 

Mattapan,  ship,  built  at  Bath,  Maine,  1885,  109  tons. 

Mattie  W.  Atwood,  schooner,  built  by  James  Mackenzie  at  Essex, 
Mass.,  1872,  653  tons. 

Matty  Taylor,  built  by  Crandall  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  1850. 

Megunticook,  bark,  built  at  Bucksport,  Maine  1866,  420  tons. 

Mexican,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  by  Elijah  Briggs  at  Salem,   1824, 
227  tons. 

MiNDORA,  schooner,  built  by  Albert  Story  at  Essex,  Mass. 

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BRIG     'RISING   STATES' 
Model  made  before  1800. 


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BARK    -SEA    FOX"    in-    NEW     BEDKOKU, 
Contemporary  model  cf  a  whaler. 


Nellie  Rich,  schooner,  built  by  Joshua  Brown  at  Salem,  1866,  29  tons. 

Neptune,  ship,  built  by  John  Taylor  at  Chelsea,  Mass.,  1853,  1032 
tons. 

The  Shawmut  was  built  from  the  same  model. 

Neptune's  Car,  sloop  yacht,  designed  and  model  made  by  Edwin 
Humphreys,  Dan  vers,  Mass.,  1890. 

Nineveh,  barkentine,  built  at  East  Boston,  1874,  472  tons. 


Panay,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  Justin  Taylor  at  Boston,  1877,  1190 
tons.     It  cost,  $74,582.75. 

Also,  photographs  of  the  ship,  and  builder's  plans. 

Paul  Revere,  ship,  built  by  Smith  and  Townsend  at  Boston,  1876, 
1657  tons,  14  inches. 


Pearl  Nelson,  schooner,  built  at  Essex,  Mass.,  about  1880. 

Schooner  Abbott  Baldwin  was  probably  built  from  same  model. 

Persia,  brig,  of  Salem,  built  at  Salem,  1822,  254  tons. 

PONTIAC,  sloop  yacht,  built  by  Packard  and  Burgess  at  Salem,  for 
George  S.  Silsbee,   1905. 


Progress,  bark,  whaler,  formerly  the  Charles  Phillips,  built  1843, 
358    tons. 

Also,  enlarged  colored  photograph  from  a  painting  and 
photograph  of  her  commander,  Capt.  James  Dowden.  The 
Progress  was  the  whaler  exhibited  at  the  World's  Fair  at  Chicago, 
1893.  There  are  many  objects  in  the  museum's  whaling 
collection  from  the  Progress.  [See  McKibben,  N.  E.  Magazine, 
vol.  XVIII,  p.  494.] 

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RiENZA,  sloop,  built  by  Crandall  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  1850. 

Risk,  schooner,  built  on  the  South  Shore,  Mass.,  1847 . 

Robert,  bark,  built  by  John  Taylor  at  Medford,  Mass.,  1848,  778 
tons. 

Also,  builder's  plans. 

Romp,  brig,  built  by  Christopher  Turner  at  Salem,  1809,  232  tons. 
Rosalie,  schooner,  built  by   Ira  Story  at  Danversport,  1861  -  1865. 

St.  Clair,  ship,  built   by   John   J.  Currier   at   Newburyport,  1835, 
422  tons. 

Samuel  R.  Crane,  schooner,  built  by  Willard  A.  Burnham  at  Essex, 
Mass.,   1882. 

Screamer,  bark,  built  by  John  Taylor  at  Medford,  Mass.,  about 
1852. 

Senator  Lodge,  schooner,  of  Gloucester. 

Twenty-five  other  schooners  were  built  from  this  model 
which  was  exhibited  at  the  World's  Fair  at  Chicago,  1893. 

Seth  Stockbridge,  schooner,  built  by  Willard  A.  Burnham  at  Essex, 
Mass.,  1875. 

Shawmut,  ship,  built  by  John  Taylor  at  Chelsea,  Mass.,  1853,  1034 
tons. 

The  Neptune  was  built  from  the  same  model. 

Stella,  sail  -  boat,  built  by  F.  A.  White  of  Boston  for  Charles   T. 
Jenkins,    1880,    16  inches. 

The  Dash  was  built  from  the  same  model. 
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CONTEMPORARY    MODEL   OF   AN    18th   CENTURY   SHIP 


CONTEMPORARY   MODEL   OF   AN    AMERICAN   CLIPPER   SHIP 
With  sails  carved  from  wood. 


Sultana,  identification  in  doubt.  [A  bark  Sultana  was  built  by  D. 
McKay,  1846,  and  another  bark,  Sultana,  812  tons,  was  built 
at  Summerville,  N.  J.,  in  1877.1 

Sumatra,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  John  Taylor  at  Chelsea,  Mass  ., 
1856,  1041  tons. 
The  Derby  was  built  from  the  same  model. 

Syren,  ship,  of  Salem,  built  by  John  Taylor  at  Medford,  Mass.,  1851  , 
1064  tons. 

Theresa  Baker,  schooner,  built  at  Essex,  Mass. 

Other  schooners  were  built  from  the  same  model. 

Truman,  bark,  built  on  the  South  Shore,  Mass.,  1846. 

William  H.  Thorndyke,  schooner,  built  by  Job  Story  at  Essex,  Mass. 

Half-Hull  Models,  Names  of  Vessels  Unknown 

Bark,  owned  by  Benjamin  A.  West  and  others  of  Salem.  Probably^ 
the  bark  Arabia,  382  tons,  built  by  Joshua  Brown  at  Salem,. 
1857,  and  lost  the  next  year  at  Cape  of  Good  Hope . 

PowER-BoAT,  of  Swampscott,  Mass. 

Model  by  Cornelius  Crowley  of  Salem,  1910. 

Schooner,  designed  for  Bowker  Brothers  of  Salem,  1850,  but  not 
built. 

Schooner,  built  by  Oliver  Burnham  at  Essex,  Mass.,  1860. 

Schooners,  models  of  three  built  by  Jeremiah  Burnham  at  Essex  ^ 

Mass. 

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Schooners,  models  of  five  built  at  Essex,  Mass. 

Schooners,  models  of  two  Gloucester  fishing  schooners. 

Stone  -  Sloop,  built  at  Essex,  Mass.,  for  Rockport,  Mass.,  owners. 

Whalers,  models  of  six  New  Bedford  whalers,  period  of  1840  -  1860. 

Unidentified  Half-Hull  Models 

Model,  period  of  1800,'  open  -  work  longitudinal  strips. 

Models,    of  six   vessels  built  in  Salem  or  for  Salem  owners,  1820- 
1850. 

Model,  vessel  built  by  Ira  Story  at  Danversport,  Mass.,  1861  - 1865. 

Model,  vessel  designed  by  Joshua  Brown  about  1875  but  not  built. 

Models,   of  three  vessels  built  by  Crandall  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  1835- 
1850. 

Models,  of  two  ships  or  barks,  period  of  1840  -  1850. 

Model,  vessel  built  on  the  South  Shore,  Mass..  about  1850. 

Model,  sail  boat,  about  1880,  8  inches. 

Models,  of  three    boats   built  by    Benjamin    P.  Dobson  at   Rock- 
port,  Mass.,  8  to  12  inches. 

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MODELS,   SCALES,   SEA   ANCHOR 
Builder's  models  of  Salem  ships,    1809-1870,    the  longest  5^    feet.     Scale  beams  and  weights 
used  by  Salem  ships  on  the  coast  of  Sumatra  for  weighing  pepper,  1820-1850.     Stone  pepper  weight, 
early  19th  Century.     Ship's  drag  or  sea  anchor  from  William  Gray's  storehouse,  Salem,  about  1805. 


Models,  of  seven  boats  built  by  Daniel  C.  Becket  and  others  of  the 
Becket  family  of  ship-builders  at  Salem,  1850-  1870,  11  to  16 
inches. 

Model,  yacht,  said  to  be  the  Take-it-Easy  of  Salem. 

Model,  steamer,  made  by  Thomas  Barker  before  1850,  5  feet. 


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NAUTICAL    INSTRUMENTS 


The  collection  includes  some  not  strictly  nautical. 

Barometers. 

Mercurial,  F.  Saltery  &  Co.,  London,  about  1800,  mahog- 
any frame,  bonnet  top;  not  in  order.  C.  Another,  banjo 
pattern,  said  to  have  been  used  on  the  whaler  Progress,  but 
probably  from  the  shipping  office;  not  in  order.  C.  Another, 
Timby's  Patent,  made  by  Marsh,  Worcester,  Mass.;  imper- 
fect. C  Another,  James  Bassnett,  Liverpool,  carved  mahog- 
any frame,  swinging  socket  for  vessel,  used  by  Capt.  Charles 
Hoffman  of  Salem,  about  1840;  in  good  order.  C  Another, 
Adie,  London,  No.  35,  metal  frame,  socket  for  vessel,  a  fine 
modern  instrument.  C.  Cottage  barometer  with  camphor  and 
alcohol  tube;  a  toy.  €.  Aneroid  barometer,  6  inches  diameter, 
used  by  Robert  Louis  Stevenson  in  the  South  Seas;  in  good 
order. 

Binnacle. 

Two  lights,  compass,  6  inches,  "F.  W.  Lincoln,  Jr.  &  Co. 
Boston,"  about  1890. 


Calipers. 


Brass,  24  inches,  "G.  Adams  Mathematical  Instrument 
Maker  to  His  Majesty,  Fleet  St.  London";  with  scale  and 
tables,  about  1750  -  1790,  used  by  John  Taylor,  ship-builder 
of  Medford  and  Boston,  imported  from  London  by  his  father, 
d  Another,  brass,  7  inches,  for  "guns,"  "howitzers,"  "quan- 
tity of  powder,"  etc.,  about  1815.  C  Another,  of  wood  for 
measuring  timber  in  ship-yards,  before  1840. 

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MISCELLANEOUS   INSTRUMENTS 
From  above:   Gauging  callipers,  1790,  6*  feet  long;    another,  later  form;     long  armed  serving 
mallets,  used  by  riggers  about  1830;    instruments  for  drawing  curves,  one  inscribed  "William  Addison, 
1693." 


Chronometers. 


In  box,  "M.  Tobias,  Liverpool"  used  on  whaler  Progress, 
about  1840.  C.  Another,  "Frodsham,  Liverpool  and  Lon- 
don," used  on  ship  Mindoro  of  Salem,  by  Capt.  Charles  Beadle; 
a  fine  instrument. 


Circles  of  Reflection. 

With  stand,  "Troughton,  London  11",  1815-1820,  gold 
scale;  owned  by  Capt.  William  Ross  Brown,  U.  S.  Navy,  in 
1861.  d  Another,  in  box,  with  adjustable  glasses,  detached 
handle,  no  inscription. 


Compasses. 

Without  box,  "S.  Emery,"  2  inches  high,  6  in  diameter. 
C  Also,  ship's  compass  in  box,  "Benj.  King  Salem  in  New 
England,"  "1770,"  cut  in  box.  C.  Another,  "B.  King  Salem 
Maker,"  1790.  C.  Another,  "S.  Emery,  Salem."  C.  Another, 
"C.  R.  Sherman  &  Co.  New  Bedford,"  from  whaler  Progress. 
C  Azimuth  compass,  "John  H.  Wheeler,  New  York." 
C  Another,  "S.  Emery,  Salem,"  finely  mounted  in  box. 
C Tell-Tale  compass,  "Gray  and  Lissett,  Liverpool"  about  1850. 
C  Another,  "John  Gilbert,  Tower  Hill,  London,"  used  by 
Captain  Joseph  Hardy  Millett  on  ship  Witch  of  the  Wave,  1852. 
C  Another,  "Charles  E.  King,  Broad  St.  Boston."  C  Com- 
pass, metal  case,  "S.  Mansini  Opticien  au  Havre,"  4  inches 
diameter,  gift  to  Capt.  Addison  Richardson  of  ship  Charlemagne. 
C  Dial  compass  with  adjustable  gnomon  for  different  latitudes, 
4  inches,  about  1840.  C.  Surveyor's  compass,  "William  Daven- 
port Maker,  Philadelphia,"  brass,  four  vanes,  8  inches. 
C  Another,  wooden  vanes,  "Made  by  James  Halsey  near  ye 
draw  bridge,  in  Boston,"  probably  pre- Revolutionary.  CL  An- 
other, with  socket,  old,  18th  century,  rudely  made.  C.  Chinese 
compass,  3  inches,  solid  box.  C.  Another,  flat  with  many  char- 
acters in  circles.  The  Chinese  compass  was  originally  considered 
to  point  to  the  south.  C.  Japanese  compass,  flat,  in  frame  14 
inches  in  diameter,  used  for  a  shop  sign. 


Curves. 

Adjustable,  with  screws.  24  inches,  "WilUam  Addison,  1693" 
cut  in  frame,  d  Another,  similar,  40  inches,  no  inscription. 
Both  from  the  Barker  and  Magoun  ship-yard,  Salem,  established 
before  1812;    undoubtedly  both  are  about  the  same  age. 

Dividers. 

Leg  6  inches,  from  Thaxter's,  Boston.  1840.  [See  Half- 
circle  and  Instruments.] 


Dog- Vane. 

Light  feathers  on  a  cord  attached  to  a  short  pole  to  place  on 
the  rail  of  a  vessel  to  detect  slight  movements  of  the  air.  Made 
by  Capt.  Charles  Beadle  of  ship  Mindoro. 

Gauging  Instruments. 

Calipers,  sliding  arms,  26  inches.  C  Another,  6>^  feet 
long,  arms  of  wood,  ?>l4  feet,  New  Bedford,  18th  century. 
C  Gauger's  boxwood  rod.  C.  Gauger's  iron  for  marking  oil 
casks,  barrels  and  timber. 


Globes. 


The  Earth  and  the  Heavens,  12  inches  diameter,  a  set  "Pub. 
by  G.  Wright  and  William  Bardin,  London,  1782";  the  earth 
is  brought  up  to  date  thru  "Capt.  Cook's  Discoveries." 
d  Another,  the  Heavens,  "Loring,  Boston.  1833,"  12  inches. 
C  Another,  the  Earth,  about  1840,  5  inches.  C  Another 
set,  the  Earth  and  the  Heavens,  12  inches  diam.eter,  Troy, 
N.  Y.,  used  by  Prof.  Charles  Davies,  LL.  D. 


Gunter's  Scales. 


On  box- wood  rulers,  2  feet;  one  used  by  Capt.  Lovett  on  the 
ship  George  of  Salem,  about  1820.  d  Another,  from  Ho\l 
and  Jenks,  ship-builders  of  Salem,  1830.  d  Another,  "Belcher 
Brothers  Makers  New  York."     C  Others,  6  inches  and  12 


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inches,  folding,  fewer  scales,  from  a  case  of  drafting  instru- 
ments used  on  ship  Formosa  of  Salem,  1870.  C.  Also,  slid- 
ing scale  about  1830. 

Horizons,  Artificial. 

In  box,  roof-shaped  cover  for  mercury,  Capt.  Emery  John- 
son, 1820  -  1830.  C  Another,  similar,  Capt.  Charles  Hoff- 
man, about  1840.  C.  Another,  circular  stone  (alabaster) 
box,  flexible  base  for  mercury,  Capt.  Hoffman,  1840. 

Half-Circle. 

Wood,  with  brass  arm,  10  inches,  and  scale,  without  sights 
or  glasses,  "J.  W.  Watkins  Charing  Cross  London,"  given 
to  the  East  India  Marine  Soc.  in  1818  and  described  as,  —  "An 
instrument  to  find  the  chief  corrections  of  a  lunar  observation." 
Four-legged  dividers,  by  the  same  maker,  and  given  at  the 
same  date,  marked,  "A.B.C.  D.,"  described  as,  —  "Four- 
legged  compasses  used  to  determine  the  longitude  by  the 
half-circle." 


Hydrometer. 

Wet  and  dry  bulbs,  "Cassalla,  London,"  in  a  case  with 
front  blind  made  by  the  carpenter  of  ship  Mindoro  of  Salem, 
1880. 


Hygrometers. 

Urn-shaped  metal  float  7  inches  diameter,  "N.  Chamberlain, 
Boston,  for  U.S.  Ordnance  Department,  1855."  Two  base 
attachments  with  it  in  the  box. 

Spirit  testing,  glass:  "Hydrostatic  glass  bubbles"  invented 
and  made  by  "James  Brown,  Glasgow,"  each  "bubble"  (marked 
with  a  number)  half-inch  in  diameter,  in  box,  3  inches  m  diam- 
eter. C  Glass  bulb  with  scale  on  long  stem,  used  on  the  ships 
of  Stone,  Pickman  &  Silsbee  of  Salem,  "B.  Pike  &  Son,  518 
Broadway,  N.  Y."     C.  Another,  similar,  without  mark. 

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Implement  for  striking  circles  in  setting  ships'  pumps. 
Used  in  Essex,  Mass.,  ship-yards  before  1820. 

Instrument  for  obtaining  diameters  of  small  objects. 

In  box  4x6  inches,  with  indicator,  about  1830. 

Instrument  for  measuring  depth  of  water,  etc. 

Brass  frame  with  propeller  and  indicator,  "E.  &  G.  W.  Blunt, 
New  York,  46"  marked,  "2000  fathoms,"  "160  miles,"  etc. 

Instruments  for  charting. 

Brass  scale,  dividers,  pen  attachments,  etc.,  used  on  ship 
Formosa  of  Salem  by  Capt.  J.  Warren  Saul.  C.  Another 
similar.     [See  Dividers.] 

Instruments  for  laying  out  the  course  of  a  vessel. 

Circular,  with  extension  for  handle,  compass  card  on  one 
side,  mounted  card  on  other,  about  1840;  inscribed,  —  "Con- 
structed by  Cap*"  A.  Bleasdale,  made  by  B.  I.  Wood,  Liver- 
pool." C  Another,  older,  sailor  made,  with  pins  to  mark 
course,  said  to  have  been  used  on  a  whaler. 

Leads. 

Hand  lead,  8  pounds,  about  1850.  C  Another,  deep  sea 
lead,  80  pounds,  U.  S.  Navy,  1861. 

Log-Glass,  Sand-Glass,  14  Seconds  Glass. 

U.  S.  Navy  (28  seconds),  wooden  frame,  about  1850. 
C  Another  (14  seconds),  wooden  frame,  about  1830,  from 
shop  of  Robert  Peele  in  Salem.  <I  Another,  from  C.  S.  A. 
ship  Florida,  1863.     C  Another,  brass  frame,  recent. 

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NON-METALLIC   INSTRUMENT   BY   DOLLAND,    LONDON.    ABOUT    1780 
For  detecting  slight  variations  of  the  earth's  magnetism 


Log,  Harpoon. 

Inscribed,  —  "Walker's  A2  Harpoon  Ship  Log  Patented 
18  Sept.  1866."  Brass  frame  with  dial  indicator,  used  by 
Capt.  George  E.  Lord  of  Salem. 

Log-Line. 

Old  form,  with  reel,  float  and  "knots,"  made  by  Capt. 
Charles  Beadle  for  the  collection. 

Like  tonnage  the  relation  of  knots  and  sea  and  land  miles  is  a  confusing  one. 
A  knot  indicates  a  geographical  or  sea  mile,  one-sixtieth  of  a  mean  degree  of  longitude 
at  the  surface  of  the  earth,  which  varies,  of  course,  in  different  latitudes  but  is  fixed 
at  6080  feet  as  a  standard.  The  land  or  statute  mile  is  5280  feet.  Therefore,  if  a 
ship  is  recorded  as  sailing  at  the  rate  of  13  knots,  or  thirteen  sea  miles  an  hour,  a  rail- 
road train  going  at  the  same  speed  would  be  recorded  as  traveling  at  the  rate  of  15  miles 
an  hour.  But  the  sea  term  knot  is  used  solely  to  indicate  the  rate  and  never  as  describ- 
ing the  distance  covered;   that  is  stated  in  sea  miles. 

In  the  old  days  "heaving  the  log"  meant  throwing  out  from  the  stern  of  a  vessel 
a  small  float  —  a  small  canvas  bag  was  sometimes  used  —  attached  to  a  line  running 
from  a  reel  held  clear  of  the  rail  of  the  vessel,  the  float  remaining  stationary  in  the  water. 
[See  illustration  of  nautical  instrument  case.]  At  the  instant  the  log  is  "hove" 
a  sand-glass,  either  14  or  28  seconds,  is  turned.  On  the  line  are  knots,  —  hence 
the  derivation  of  the  term,  —  pieces  of  marline  or  rags  tied  thru  the  strands  and  spaced 
the  same  fraction  of  a  mile  apart  —  about  46  feet  8  inches  —  which  28  seconds  is  the 
fraction  of  an  hour,  —about  1-128.  Therefore,  using  the  28  seconds  glass  and  check- 
ing the  line  the  instant  the  sand  runs  out,  the  number  of  knots  and  fraction  on  the  line 
paid  out  will  at  once  indicate  the  number  of  sea  miles  per  hour  which  the  vessel  is  going; 
this  is,  of  course,  doubled  if  the  14  seconds  glass  is  used  which  is  done  when  the  vessel 
is  going  very  fast. 

The  modern  patent  log,  which  remains  indefinitely  in  the  water  attached  to 
the  stern  of  the  vessel  by  a  line  and  by  means  of  revolving  blades  records  the  rate  of 
the  vessel's  speed  on  an  indicator,  has  been  gradually  developed  from  the  device  of 
Humfray  Cole  in  1578,  improved  upon  by  various  inventors  for  three  centuries,  but 
not  perfected  and  generally  used  much  before  the  middle  of  the  nineteenth  century; 
since  then  it  has  superseded  the  old-time  log  and  line.  In  the  "harpoon"  log  of  the 
1860's  the  indicator  was  combined  with  the  rotating  blades  and  it  was  necessary  to 
haul  in  the  log  to  read  the  rate  of  speed,  but  in  the  modern  forms  as  the  "Neptune" 
and  "Rocket"  logs  the  indicator  is  on  the  vessel  and  may  be  read  at  any  time. 

Log-Watch. 

From  the  East  India  Marine  collection  received  in  1803, 
described  as,  —  "An  instrument  to  ascertain  small  portions 
of  time  in  heaving  the  log."  In  a  glass  case.  4  inch  cube,  with 
clock  work  and  bell,  and  a  line  to  start  the  mechanism. 


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Magnet. 

An  instrument  with  stand  of  wood  and  ivory,  with  microscopes 
at  each  end  of  a  bar  magnet,  to  detect  slight  variations  of  the 
earth's  magnetism,  "Dollond,  London,"  about  1780. 


Nocturnals. 


Used  to  obtain  the  time  at  night  by  observation  of  the  "Bears " 
and  the  "North  Star,"  inscribed,  —  "Nathl.  Viall  1724," 
boxwood,  arm  10  inches.  €.  Another,  "Both  Bears,"  similar, 
but  no  inscription.  [See  Seller's  Navigation,  also,  Chatterton, 
Ships  and  Ways  of  Other  Days,  Chap.  IX,  for  accounts  of 
early  nautical  instruments.] 


Planisphere. 


Japanese,     lacquered,     revolving    plates    with    inscriptions 
for  the  sun  and  planets,  about  1795. 


Protractor. 

Brass,  13  inches,  with  two  half-circle  scales,  about  1830. 


Quadrants  (Octants). 

The  arc  of  the  Hadley  quadrant,  the  one  now  used,  is  one 
eighth  of  the  circle,  and  octant,  as  it  is  sometimes  called,  is  a 
better  name  for  the  instrument,  altho,  of  course,  by  reflection 
it  represents  one  fourth  of  the  circle.  The  two  detached  arcs 
of  the  older  Davis  quadrant  do,  however,  represent  one  quarter 
of  the  circle.  There  were  several  fore-runners  of  the  quadrant, 
—  the  plumb  quadrant  and  sinical  quadrant,  which  were  really 
one  quarter  of  the  circle,  the  plow,  the  cross-staff  and,  still 
earlier,  the  astrolabe  and  the  universal  ring-dial.  '    i 

The  collection  of  quadrants  is  quite  large  and  very  interesting. 
It  includes  both  forms  of  the  Davis  quadrant  and  gradations 
of  the  Hadley  quadrant  from  the  large,  old  ones  made  wholly 
of  wood,  to  the  modern,  smaller  ones  of  metal.  The  beau- 
tiful and  accurate  workmanship  of  the  Davis  quadrants  and 

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SPY-GLASSES 
From  above:    Dutch,  old,  5  leet  long,  used  at  Nagasaki,  Japan;    from  U.  S.  S.  Guernere,  1815; 
from  a  British  prize  vessel  taken  by  an  American  privateer,  1779;  later  forms,  (left)  used  by  Encs  Briggs, 
builder  of  the  frigate  Essex,  1799;    (right)  used  by  Capt.  Edward  Weston  on  the  clipper  ship  Joseph  Pea- 
body,  1856;    (below),  tapering,  about  1820. 


NOCTURNALS 

For  obtaining  the  time  by  the  North  star.     The  one  at  the  left 
the  one  at  the  right  shows  the  reverse  of  a  similar  instrument. 


inscribed  "NathH  Viall  1724": 


the  earlier  forms  of  the  Hadley  quadrants  attest  the  skill  of 
their  makers.  Made  mostly  of  ebony  and  boxwood  none  of 
these  old  instruments  have  warped,  twisted  or  sprung  at  the 
joints  in  the  hundred  and  fifty  or  more  years  of  their  existence: 
the  jointings  of  the  Davis  quadrants  are  marvels  of  good  work- 
manship ;  they  were  used  long  after  the  better  Hadley  quadrants 
appeared.  The  Davis  quadrants  could  be  made  by  an  expert 
cabinet-maker  and  probably  were  less  expensive  than  the 
Hadley  quadrants  which  required  more  professional  work. 

Davis  Quadrants. 

Invented  by  John  Davis,  the  explorer,  15S0.  Early  form, 
solid  shade  vane,  "J.  Hutchins,  St.  Catherines,  London." 
C  Another,  similar,  no  inscription.  €[  Another,  later  form, 
lens  in  shade  vane,  "Made  by  William  Williams  in  King  St., 
Boston  for  Malachi  Allen,  1768."  C  Another,  inscribed.  — 
"A1016L."  C  Another, —  " Made  by  G.  Gagger,  Newport 
Rhoad  Island,  1773"  for  "Daniel  Fish."  All  are  about  22  to 
24  inches  from  horizon  vane  to  sight  vane.  These  are 
sometimes  called  "Jackass  quadrants";  they  were  used  by  the 
observer  standing  back  to  the  sun. 

Hadley  Quadrants. 

Devised  by  John  Hadley  in  England,  1731,  and  indepen- 
dently by  Thomas  Godfrey  of  Philadelphia,  1732.  Both 
Hadley  and  Godfrey  received  rewards  of  200  pounds  sterling 
from  the  Royal  Society  of  London  for  their  inventions.  All 
parts  of  wood,  arms  19  to  22  inches,  —  "Made  by  John 
Dupee  for  Patrick  Montgomerie  1755."  €[  Another,  —  "Made 
by  John  Gilbert  of  Tower  Hill,  London  for  Hector  Orr, 
1768."     C  Another,  —  "Sterrop,  London,  for  Arthur  Tyburn, 

1772."     <I  Another, —  "  Wm s   1779."     C  Another,  part 

brass,  —  "David  Young,  jr.  1781." 

Forms  with  more  metal.  —  "Spencer  Browning  and  Rust 
London"  used  by  Capt.  Peter  Morse,  1801.  d  Another, 
by  the  same  makers,  used  by  Capt.  Richard  Wheatland,  1805. 
C.  Another,  about  1790,  used  by  Capt.  Nathaniel  Silsbee  of 
Salem,  later  U.S.  Senator,  about  1792.  inscribed.  —  "Joseph 

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Roux  fils  aine  Marseille,"  arm  14 >2  inches.  "Joseph  Ange 
Anton  Roux,  1765  -  1835,  was  established  as  a  hydrographer 
on  a  quay  at  Marseilles."  [Letter  of  M.  F.  Servian,  Marseilles, 
Feb.  1917.]  It  is  probable  that  Senator  Silsbee's  quadrant 
was  obtained  from  a  member  of  this  family  whose  paintings 
of  ships  are  so  beautifully  executed.  C.  Another,  from  ship 
Hercules  of  Salem,  1820,  "J.  Urings,  London,"  frame  and 
arm  metal.  C  Others,  —  "Melling  &  Co.  Southward  Castle, 
Liverpool."  W^/a  inches;  "Gardner,  Glasgow,"  used  on 
whaler  Progress  of  1840;  "Richard  Lekeux,  No.  137,  near 
Execution  Dock  Wapping  London,"  used  by  Nathaniel  Bow- 
ditch  on  ship  Astrea  of  Salem,  1801;  "Smith  and  Rammage 
Aberdeen";  "J.  King,  Bristol,"  "Norie  &  Co.,  London,"  sold 
by  "Samuel  Thaxter,  Boston"  and  used  by  Capt.  John 
Hodges  of  Salem,  1830;  "G.  Bradford,  Minories,  London," 
wholly  metal,  used  by  Capt.  Charles  Beadle  on  ship  Mindoro 
of  Salem,  1880.  Many  of  the  older  quadrant  boxes,  being 
of  pine  or  oak,  are  painted  and  decorated,  some  with  Wash- 
ington's portrait,  others  with  emblems,  flags,  etc.  The  older 
Hadley  quadrants  are  provided  with  "backsights"  so  that 
they  may  be  used  in  the  manner  finally  adopted  for  the  Davis 
quadrant,  the  observer  standing  with  his  back  to  the  sun. 


Rulers,  Parallel. 

Several  of  ebony,  6  to  14  inches.  One  used  by  Capt.  Charles 
Beadle  of  ship  Mindoro  of  Salem.  C.  One  of  lignum  vitae  made 
of  wood  from  U.  S.  S.  Cumberland  sunk  at  Hampton  Roads,  Va., 
1864.  C  Another,  of  ebony  with  the  name  of  Capt.  Thomas 
Perkins  inlaid  in  ivory  dots  by  a  sailor. 


Scales,  Scale  -  Beams  and  Weights. 

Small  balances  used  on  Salem  ships  1790  to  1850  for  weighing 
medicine,  gold-dust  and  for  other  purposes.  C.  Also,  set  of 
weights  for  gold  and  silver.  C  Scale  beams,  ?>^i  to  5>^  feet 
used  on  Salem  ships  Carolina  Augusta  and  Formosa,  with 
twenty-four  56  pound  weights,  for  weighing  pepper  on  the 
Sumatra  coast,  used  early  to  middle  nineteenth  century. 

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DAVIS   QUADRANTS 
At  lelt,  old  form  with  solid  shade  vane,  about  1750;  at  right,  later  form  with  convex  gla 


Sextants. 


The  Sextant  was  suggested  by  Captain  Campbell,  H.  B.  M. 
Navy,  in  1757,  in  order  to  measure  greater  angles  than  was 
possible  with  the  Quadrant  (Octant).     The  sextants  in  the  col- 
lection   show   progressive    development   much  less   than   the 
quadrants,  altho    some    of  the    earlier  forms    have  a   certain 
resemblance  to  the  old  wooden  Quadrants.     Several  of  the  sex- 
tants have  interesting  histories.     Old   form,  large,  "Bradford, 
London,"    sold   by    "S.    Emery,    Salem."     C.  Another,    "J. 
Bleuler,    London,"    frame    wood,    arm    brass.     C.  Another, 
"Parkinson  and  Frodsham,  Liverpool,  all  metal,  as  are  all  of 
the  rest.     C.  Another,    "Cameron,   Liverpool,"   about    1840. 
C  Another,  with  adjustable  handle,  used  by   Capt.  Charles 
Farrington,    Salem.     C.  Another,    "Thomas    Jones.     Liver- 
pool."    C  Another,    "Sibbarrad,    London,"  used   by   Lieut. 
Jesse  Smith,  U.  S.  N.,  1830.     d  Another,  used  in  turn  by  three 
Salem  shipmasters,  —  Capt.   Whittredge,   Capt.  N.  T.  Snell, 
Capt.    William    Beadle,    from    1810    to    1880.     C.  Another, 
"Hughes,  London,"  used  by  Capt.  Philip  P.  Pinel  of  Salem, 
C  Another,    "William    Holliwell    from    London,    Liverpool" 
used  by  Nathaniel  Bowditch,  compiler  of  the  Navigator  and 
President  of  the  Salem    East    India    Marine    Society,   1820- 
1823.     C  Another,    by    "Dollond,    London,"    presented    to 
Capt.  Addison  Richardson  by  the  passengers  on  the  packet- 
ship  Duchesse  d' Orleans,   1838.     CL  Another,    "G.    Gowland, 
76  Castle  St.,   Liverpool,"  the   sextant  used  by   Dr.   David 
Livingstone,  the  African  Explorer,  and  sold  with  his  effects 
at  Zanzibar  by  order  of  the  Royal  Geographical  Society  and 
there  purchased  by  Capt.  William  Beadle  of  Salem  who  used 
it  on  several  voyages  and  finally  gave  it  to  the  Museum. 


Sextant,  Pocket  or  Box. 


"W.  Harris  &  Co.,  50  Holborn,  London  and  at  Hamburg." 
Brass,  3  inches  in  diameter,  minor  parts  missing. 


Sounding  Iron. 

Iron  rod  two  feet  long  graduated  in  inches  with  a  line  to 
lower  it.  Used  to  find  the  depth  of  water  in  the  hold  of  a 
vessel;  it  is  dropped  through  the  space  left  for  the  purpose 
at  the  side  of  the  ship's  pump. 

Spy  Glasses. 

Wooden  barrel,  taken  from  a  British  prize  vessel  by  Capt. 
James  Barr  in  a  Salem  privateer  near  the  Irish  coast  in  1779, 
32  inches  long,  short  sliding  tube.  €.  Another,  48  inches 
long,  used  on  U.  S.  S.  Guerriere  during  the  Algerian  War,  1815. 
d  Another,  modern  form,  used  b}^  Enos  Briggs,  builder  of 
the  frigate  Essex,  1799.  ([Another,  used  by  Nathaniel 
Bowditch,  LL.  D.,  compiler  of  the  Navigator,  when  a  Salem 
ship-master.  C.  Others,  "Smith  and  Bond,  London,"  and 
several  of  similar  form  but  not  marked.  C.  Another,  with 
copper  tube  5  feet  long,  used  by  the  Japanese  at  Nagasaki  to 
watch  for  foreign  ships,  probably  obtained  from  the  Dutch 
and  may  be  very  old. 

Slates. 

Hand  slate  used  on  the  whaler  Progress  for  figuring  positions 
before  entering  the  record  of  the  day  in  the  log-book. 
<[  Another,  from  the  counting  room  of  Gamaliel  Hodges, 
merchant  of  Salem. 

Telescope. 

Ponchon's,  for  measuring  distances,  polished  brass  tube 
25  inches  long,  sliding  scale  at  side,  in  a  wooden  case. 

Thermometers. 

Spirit,  wooden  frame,  registering  cold,  "W.  &  S.  Jones, 
Holborn,  London,"  belonged  to  Rev.  Dr.  Prince  of  Salem, 
marked  on  back  "May  5,  1817,  $4.25."  C.  Another,  by  the 
same  makers,  used  by  Dr.  Edward  A.  Holyoke  of  Salem,  1825 
C  Another,   used   on  ships  Syren   and   Columbia   by   Capt 

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HADLEY   QUADRANTS    (OCTANTS) 
Above.  John  Dupee,  maker,   1755;    John  Gilbert,  London,   1768.     Below,  Spencer  Browning 
&  Rust,  London,  about  1800;   J.  Urings,  London,  wholly  metal.     Center,  Ncrie  &  Co..  London,  about 
1840.  modern  form  with  telescopic  eye-piece.     The  earlier  forms  have  "back  sights  " 


Edward  A.  Silsbee,  1853  - 1854.  C.  Another,  Russian  inscrip- 
tion, Reaumur  and  Fahrenheit,  used  on  ship  George  of  Salem, 
1820.  d  Another,  portable  6  inches,  centigrade  scale.  All 
but  the  first  are  mercurial. 

Transit,  Bliss'  Solar. 

Telescope  on  brass  stand,  11  inches. 

Water-Testing    Apparatus    (Water-bottle). 

Bottle  with  netting,  lead  sinker  and  long  line,  arranged  to 
be  opened  at  any  desired  depth  to  obtain  water  for  the  purpose 
of  testing,  about  1850. 


Watches. 


Silver  case,  double,  1765,  —  "M.  Hurst,  London,"  showing 
the  sort  of  time-piece  used  at  sea  before  the  days  of  chro- 
nometers. C  Another,  gold  case,  double,  —  "John  Jackson, 
London,"  about  1801,  made  to  order  for  William  Gray,  mer- 
chant of  Salem,  for  his  daughter,  Lucia  Gray. 


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PORTRAITS 


The  portraits  in  the  Peabody  Museum  are  nearly  all  of  Salem 
ship-masters  and  merchants  engaged  in  foreign  commerce,  chiefly 
with  China,  Africa,  South  America  and  the  Pacific.  A  few  are  por- 
traits of  trustees  and  officers  of  the  Peabody  Museum  and  of  Orientals 
with  whom  the  Salem  merchants  held  business  relations.  The  found- 
ers of  the  Salem  East  India  Marine  Society  in  1799  are  represented 
by  Nathaniel  Silsbee,  Dudley  Leavitt  Pickman,  Jacob  Crown- 
inshield,  Benjamin  Carpenter,  Jonathan  Hodges  and  Josiah  Orne; 
and,  in  addition.  Rev.  William  Bentley  who  may  be  called  its  Chap- 
lain; the  later  Presidents  of  the  Society  by  Nathaniel  Bow- 
ditch,  Richard  and  Nathaniel  L.  Rogers,  William  Fettyplace  and 
Allen  Putnam.  The  great  merchants  of  Salem  whose  fleets  of  ships 
made  their  way  into  every  sea  are  represented  by  portraits  of  Elias 
Hasket  Derby,  William  Orne,  William  Gray,  Edward  Allen,  Nathaniel 
West,  Joseph  Peabody,  Pickering  Dodge,  Nathan  Ward  Neal  and  John 
Bertram.  There  are  fifty-eight  portraits  of  ship-masters  in  the  col- 
lection. Among  the  artists  of  note  whose  work  is  found  here  are 
C.  R.  Leslie,  Charles  B.  T.  F.  de  St.  Memin,  James  Frothing- 
ham,  F.  Alexander,  Charles  Osgood,  Edgar  Parker,  Frank  W.  Benson 
and  I.  H.  Caliga.  There  are  no  old  portraits  for  the  period  covered 
is  practically  within  the  limits  of  the  nineteenth  century.  The  col- 
lection is  in  many  ways  a  remarkable  one  and  the  portraits  bring  out 
the  strength  of  character  of  the  men  who  established  the  foreign 
commerce  of  the  countr\^  and  whose  ships  were  the  first  to  carry  the 
American  flag  to  so  many  distant  ports,  men  of  whom  many  in  their 
maturity  were  called  to  important  service  in  the  State  and  Nation,  — 
Silsbee  as  United  States  Senator,  Gray  as  Lieut.  Governor  of  Mass., 


SEXTANTS 
Above,  Bradford,  London,  about  1810;    J    Bleuler,  London,  wooden  frame,  eld      Below,  G.  Gowland, 
Liverpool,  the  sextant  used  in  Africa  by  Dr  Livingstone. 


Jacob  Crowninshield  to  Congress,  Benjamin  W.  Crowninshield  to 
President  Madison's  cabinet,  while  many  others  served  as  U.  S.  Con- 
suls in  distant  countries  notably  in  the  East. 

The  fortunes  amassed  by  the  old  merchants  must  be  considered 
in  connection  with  the  times  in  which  they  lived  and  the  wealth  of 
the  nation  at  that  period.  Now  that  we  are  living  in  an  age  which 
thinks  in  billions  they  were  small,  yet  Elias  Hasket  Derby  died  in 
1799,  supposedly  the  richest  man  in  America;  William  Gray  in  1807 
owned  thirty-five  square-rigged  vessels,  one  -  fourth  of  the  tonnage  of 
Salem;  Joseph  Peabody  built,  owned  and  freighted  eighty-seven 
ships,  and  paid  duties  at  the  Salem  Custom  House  on  five  cargoes 
brought  in  two  of  these  of  over  $500,000.00  while  in  all  he  shipped 
7,000  seamen  and  advanced  forty-five  who  entered  his  service  as  boys 
to  the  position  of  ship-master. 

It  is  interesting  to  find  here  the  portraits  of  merchants  and  rulers 
of  foreign  lands  whose  friendship  with  the  Salem  merchants  is  evi- 
denced by  their  place  in  the  collection,  —  Eshing,  the  Hong  silk 
merchant  of  Canton  in  1805,  Nasserwanjee,  a  Parsee  merchant  of 
Bombay  in  1803,  Ahmet  ben  Haman,  the  representative  of  the  Sultan 
of  Muscat  in  1835,  and  Seyyid  Said  who  was  "Sultan"  of  Zanzibar 
in  1850.  Three  life-size  portrait  clay  figures  (in  the  India  section 
in  the  gallery  of  Weld  Hall)  of  native  merchants  of  Calcutta,  with  whom 
the  merchants  of  Salem  had  constant  dealings  and  friendly  relations 
during  the  early  half  of  the  19th  century,  have  been  preserved  in  the 
collection  for  nearly  one  hundred  years.  They  are  Rajkissen 
Mitter,  1838,  Durgha  Prasanna  Ghose  and  Rajendra  Dutte,  1848. 

Among  other  portraits  directly  connected  with  history  and 
development  of  the  Peabody  Museum  are  those  of  George  Peabody, 
the  founder  of  the  trust  in  1867,  Col.  Francis  Peabody  of  Salem,  the 
first  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  Prof.  Edward  S.  Morse, 
Director,  naturalist,  and  eminent  authority  on  Japanese  pottery, 
John  Robinson,  trustee  since  1875  and  officer  of  the  museum,  and 
John  Henry  Sears,  for  many  years  curator  of  geology  and  botany. 


Painted    Portraits 

The  portraits  are  in  oil  unless  otherwise  stated  and  the  sizes 
given  are  in  inches. 

Ahmet  Ben  Haman.    By  Edward  Mooney,  1840.    38  x  48. 

Accredited  representative  from  the  Sultan  of  Muscat,  Arabia, 
to  President  Van  Buren,  who  came  to  this  country  in  his  own 
ship,  the  Sultanee,  in  1840.  This  portrait  came  to  the  museum 
thru  the  son  of  William  McMullan,  Esq.  of  Salem,  American 
consul  at  Zanzibar,  to  whom  it  was  given  by  Ahmet. 

Aiken,  William  B.,  1814  - 1884.    Painted  about  1850.    20  x  24. 
Ship-master  of  Salem. 

Allen,  Edward,  1735  - 1803.  Head  of  a  larger  portrait  cut  down  by 
Rev.  William  Bentley  in  1816.  [See  Diary  of  William  Bentley, 
vol.  IV,  p.  383.]     14  X  18. 

Ship-master  and  merchant  of  Salem.  Commanded  schooner 
Baltick,  1765. 

Allen,  Edward,  1763  -  1845.    24  x  31. 
Merchant  of  Salem. 

Allen,  John  Fiske,  1807  - 1876.    Miniature. 

Supercargo  and  merchant  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc, 
1832.  C  Also,  cameo  cut  in  Italy  and  pencil  drawing  from 
which  it  was  cut. 

Barr,  James,  1754  - 1848.     Painted  at  Leghorn,  1806.     19  x  22. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1799.  Com- 
manded privateer  ship  Rover,  20  guns,  100  men,  1781,  and  other 
privateer  vessels  and  merchant  ships. 


Becket,  John,  1791  -  1873.     Painted  abroad  about  1820.    24  x  30. 
Ship-master  of  Salem.     Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1827. 

Becket,  John,   1776-1816.     Pastel  by  Horneman,  1811.     15x16. 
Ship-master  of  Salem.     Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1806. 


Benson,  Samuel,   1790-1862.    25x30. 

Ship-master  of  Salem  and  factor  for  Boston  mercantile 
house  in  India.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1822.  Commanded 
brig  Reaper,  1820  and  bark  Eliza,  1829. 


Bentley,   Rev.  William,   D.  D.,   1759  - 1819.    By  James  Frothing- 
ham.     22  x  27. 

Diarist,  pastor  of  Second  Church,  Salem;  assisted  in  form- 
ing the  Salem  East  India  Marine  Society,  1799. 

Bertram,  John,  1796  - 1882.    By  Edgar  Parker,  1883.    26  x  48. 

Ship-master  and  merchant  of  Salem,  philanthropist.  Mem- 
ber E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1868.  Born  in  the  island  of  Jersey;  [after 
an  adventurous  sea  life  in  an  American  privateer  and  as  com- 
mander of  the  brig  Velocity  and  ship  Black  Warrior,  he  estab- 
lished a  business  house  in  Salem  and  Zanzibar  and  also  carried 
on  trade  with  Europe,  South  America  and  California.  He 
founded  and  generously  endowed  many  institutions  in  Salem. 
[See  Osgood  and  Batchelder,  Sketch  of  Salem,  p.  134.] 

Black  Hawk,  1767  - 1838.    26  x  40. 

Noted  American  Indian  of  the  Sauk  and  Fox  tribe. 

Blake,  Robert,  1599  - 1657.     Probably  an  early  copy.    20  x  24. 
British  Admiral. 


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BOWDITCH,   Nathaniel,   LL.  D.,    1773-1838.     By   Charles  Osgood, 
1835.     48  X  66. 

Eminent  mathematician,  compiler  of  the  "Navigator,"  1801. 
Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1800  and  President,  1820  -  1823.  Com- 
manded the  ship  Putnam,  1802.  The  nautical  instruments 
used  by  Dr.  Bowditch  and  his  writing  table  are  preserved  in 
the  museum  collection. 

Bridges,  Henry  Gardner,  1789-1849.    Painted  about  1834.    25x28. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1822.  Com- 
manded ship  Janus,  1829. 

Briggs,  James  Buffington,  1790  - 1857.    Painted  abroad.    21  x  26. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1821.  Com- 
manded ship  Emerald,  1836. 

Brooks,  John  Franklin,  1838  - 1914.    By  Frank  W.  Benson,  1914. 
38  X  48. 

Merchant  of  Salem  and  Boston. 

Brown,  William,  1769  - 1802.    Painted  abroad.    20  x  24. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1800.  Com- 
manded ship  Brutus  lost  on  Cape  Cod,  Feb.  22,  1802. 

Brown,  William,  1783  - 1833.    Copy.    24  x  32. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.    Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1825. 

Buffington,  James,  1798  - 1881.    Painted  abroad.    20  x  25. 
Ship-master  of  Salem.    Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc.  1869. 

Burrill,  Josiah  C,    1784  - 1832.     19  x  26. 
Ship-master  of  Salem. 

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Carnes,  John,  1755  -  1796.     Probably  painted  about  1783.     24  x  30. 

Ship-master  of  Salem  and  Beverly.  Commanded  the  Revo- 
lutionary privateers  Gen.  Lincoln,  Hector,  and  Montgomery.  An 
interesting  portrait  in  naval  uniform  with  a  ship  at  the  left, 
wearing  what  is  evidently  intended  for  the  American  flag 
adopted  June  14,  1777,  and  another  at  the  right  with  the 
British  ensign. 

Carpenter,  Benjamin,  1751-1823.  Probably  painted  in  Europe 
30  X  40. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1799,  and 
President,  1806  -  1808,  1811  - 1812.  A  fine  and  interesting  por- 
trait. Commanded  the  ship  Massachusetts  of  Boston,  1789 
and  had  previously  commanded  the  first  cartel  sent 
from  this  country  to  England  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 
He  built  the  house  on  Federal  St.  opposite  Carpenter  St., 
which  was  named  for  him.  [See  Harrison,  The  Stars  and 
Stripes,  p.  136.] 

Cleveland,  George  William,  1812  - 1848.  By  J.  Metzer  Antwerp 
1835.     16  X  18. 

Merchant  of  Salem. 

Cleveland,  William,  1777  - 1842.    By  St.  Memin.     16  x  21. 
Ship-master  of  Salem.    Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1821. 

Cook,  Capt.  James,  1728  - 1779.  Bv  M.  Corne  after  early  engraving 
1803.     21x30. 

English  navigator. 

Crowninshield,  Benjamin,  1785  -  1836.  Pastel  by  Miss  Mary  Gull- 
iver, 1890,  after  a  miniature.  24  x  32.  H  Also,  painting  in 
oil,  later  in  life.     27  x  34. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1799.  Com- 
manded the  privateers  John  and  Alexander  in  the  War  of  1812. 


He   was   sailing-master  oi  his  cousin    George    Crowninshield's 
Cleopatra's  Barge  on  the  Mediterranean  trip  in  1817. 

Crowxixshield,  George,  1766  -  1817.     Crayon  outline  after  contem- 
porary drawing.     13  x  18. 

Ship-master  and  merchant  of  Salem.  Commanded  the  ship 
Belisarius,  1794,  and  in  1813  chartered  and  took  the  brig 
Henry  to  Halifax  for  the  bodies  of  Capt.  Lawrence  and  Lt. 
Ludlow  of  the  ill-fated  Chesapeake.  He  owned  and  sailed  to 
the  Mediterranean  in  1817,  the  yacht  Cleopatra's  Barge,  the 
first  ocean  going  American  yacht.     [See  References.] 

Crowxixshield,  Jacob,  1770  -  1818.     By  Robert  Hinkley  after  an 
early  miniature.     26  x  33. 

Ship-master  and  merchant  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc, 
1799,  and  Treasurer.  Commanded  ship  America  (2d),  1797, 
member  of  U.  S.  Congress,  1802,  until  his  death  in  Washing- 
ton, 1808.  He  was  appointed  Secretary  of  the  Navy  by  Pres- 
ident Jefferson  in  1806  but  declined  to  serve  on  account  of  ill 
health. 

Derby,  Elias  Hasket,  1739  - 1799.    By  James  Frothingham.     25  x 
31. 

Merchant  of  Salem  and  one  of  the  most  eminent  and  suc- 
cessful merchants  of  his  time  in  America.  [See  Osgood  and 
Batchelder,  Sketch  of  Salem,  p.  130;  Peabody,  The  Derbys  of 
Salem,  E.  L  Hist.  Coll.,  vol.  XLIV,  p.  193.] 

Dodge,  Pickerixg,  1778  - 1833.    By  George  Southward  after  James 
Frothingham.     25  x  31. 

Merchant  of  Salem. 

Eaglestox,  Johx  Hexry,  1803  - 1884.    By  Charles  Osgood.     28  x  36. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Member  E.  L  M.  Soc,  1829.  Com- 
manded   vessels    to    the    Fiji   islands,    1820-1840;    the    ship 

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Emerald,  1833;  the  brig  Mary  and  Ellen,  the  first  vessel  to 
sail  from  Massachusetts  to  California  on  the  news  of  the  dis- 
covery of  gold,  October  28,  1848;   the  bark  Edward  Koppisch, 

1854. 


Elkins,  Henry,   1761  -  1836.     Pastel  by  Hirschmann,  Holland,  1791, 
oval.    9  X  12. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.     Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1800.    Com- 
manded ships  Juno,   Ulysses,  Atlantic  and  brig  Telemachus. 


ESHING.     By  a  Chinese  artist,  1809.     22  x  27. 

Hong   merchant   of   Canton,    China,    early    19th   century. 

Fettyplace,  William,  1780  - 1867.    By  Charles  Osgood.    25  x  30. 

Merchant  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1816,  and  Pres- 
ident, 1832  - 1836. 

FiSKE,  John  Brown,  1804  - 1881.    By  B.  C.  Schiller,  1846.    30  x  41. 
Ship-master  of  Salem.    Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1851. 

Fuller,  Thomas,  1812  - 1906.    By  a  Chinese  artist.     15  x  19. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1869.  Last 
surviver  of  the  company  on  the  brig  Mexican  when  attacked 
by  pirates,  1832. 

Gallup,  John  Lovett,  1811  - 1853.    Painted  about  1830.    21  x  27. 
Ship-master  of  Beverly. 

Gale,  Samuel,  1783  - 1829.    18  x  24. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1827.  Lost 
in  brig  Indus,  1829. 

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GiLLis,  James  Dunlap,  1798  - 1835.    By  R.  T.  Furness,  1909,  after 
F.  de  Braekleer  of  Antwerp,  1826.     27  x  33. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1823.  Capt. 
Gillis  contributed  many  important  nautical  observations  to  the 
U.  S.  government  in  the  interest  of  commerce  and  security  of 
navigation  which  received  acknowledgement  in  its  publications. 
He  died  on  board  of  the  ship  Equator  of  which  he  was  in 
command. 


Gray,  William,  1750  - 1825.     Copy  after  Gilbert  Stuart.     28  x  38. 

Eminent  merchant  of  Salem,  Lieut.  Governor  of  Massachu- 
setts. C  Also,  a  marble  bust  by  Henry  Dexter,  1806  -  187^. 
[See  Edward  Gray,  William  Gray  of  Salem,  Boston,  1914.] 


Haraden,  Captain,  by  George  Furze,  Leghorn,  1807.     18  x  22. 

Ship-master  (?)  of  Gloucester,  Mass.  The  portrait  came  from 
Gloucester  and  was  thought  to  be  Capt.  Jonathan  Haraden,  the 
Revolutionary  privateersman,  who  came  from  Gloucester  to 
Salem,  but  he  died  in  1803. 


Hoffman,  Charles,  1797  - 1878.    By  Charles  Osgood.    29  x  36. 

Ship-master  and  merchant  of  Salem.  Member  E.  L  M. 
Soc,  1869.  Commanded  schooner  Fredonia,  1829;  later, 
merchant  engaged  in  the  West  Coast  of  Africa  trade  owning 
many  vessels. 


King,  Henry,  1783  - 1834.    Painted  abroad.     17  x  22. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.    Member  E.  L  M.  Soc,  1822.    Com- 
manded ship  Clarissa  of  Boston,  1818. 


Kinc^Henry  Franklin,  1811  - 1888.     By  Charles  Osgood.    24  x  31. 

Ship-master   of  Salem,   student  of  pomology  and    kindred 
subjects.     Son  of  Captain  Henry  King. 

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King,  Robert  Watts,  1814-1842.    31  x  40.     C.  Another,  similar  but 
small,  copy  of  first.    10  x  12. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.   Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1840.   Son  of 
Capt.  Henry  King. 

Johnson,  William,  1796  - 1837.    Painted  abroad.    22  x  30. 
Ship-master  of  Salem. 

Lander,  William,  1788  - 1834.    Painted  abroad.    17  x  22. 

Ship-master  and  merchant  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc, 
1822.     Commanded  brig  Romp  1809. 

Lefavour,  Joseph, 1853.    25  x  32. 

Ship-master  of  Salem. 

Lendholm,  Frederick,  1820  -  1863.     Painted  abroad.     20  x  24. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.     Commanded   bark  Star,    1849  and 
ship  John  Bertram,  1851. 

Lendholm,  Rebecca  M.,  1819-1872.    A  companion  portrait.    20  x  24. 
Wife  of  Capt.  Lendholm. 

McLean,  Hugh,  1770  -  18—,    Painted  in  Palermo.  1809.     24  x  30. 
Ship-master. 

Morse.  Prof.  Edward  S.,  1838 .    By  Frank  W.  Benson.  1913. 

34  X  42. 

Director  of  the  Peabody  Museum  of  Salem  since  July.  1880. 
109 


MUGFORD,  William,  1762  -  1840.     Pastel,  foreign.     10  x  12. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Aiember  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1801.  Com- 
manded ship  Ulysses,  1804,  and  received  gold  medal  of  the 
American  Philosophical  Soc,  1804,  for  temporary  rudder  de- 
vised by  him. 


Nasserwanjee,  17—  - 18—.     Painted,  in  India,  1802.     28  x  37. 

Parsee  merchant  of  Bombay,  India.  C.  Also,  a  life-size 
figure,  head  and  hands  probably  carved  by  a  Salem  wood-carver, 
with  the  costume  given  by  Nasserwanjee  to  the  E.  I.  M.  Soc. 
He  was  a  friend  and  business  correspondent  of  Salem  mer- 
chants. 


Neal,  Nathaniel  Ward,  1797-1850.    By  Francis  Alexander.   29  x  36. 
Merchant  of  Salem. 

Orne,  Josiah,  1786  - 1825.     20  x  26. 

Ship-master  and  merchant  of  Salem.  Commanded  ship 
Malabar,  1820. 

Orne,  William,  1752  - 1814.    17  x  21. 

Merchant  and  large  ship  owner  of  Salem. 

Peabody,  Brackley  Rose,  1798  - 1874.    26  x  34. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1842.  Served 
on  privateer  Surprise,  1814,  commanded  ships  Borneo,  Exchange, 
Madagascar,  1840  - 1855. 

Peabody,  Col.  Francis,  1801  - 1867.    By  Frances  Chamberlain  after 
Richard  Stagg.     29  x  36. 

Merchant  of  Salem.  First  President  of  the  Trustees  of  the 
Peabody  Museum  of  Salem,  1867. 


Peabody,  George,  1795  -  1869.     By  A.  Bertram  Schell,  1869.     48  x 
66. 

Merchant  and  banker  of  London,  philanthropist.  Founder 
of  the  Peabody  Museum  of  Salem,  1867.  C^  Also,  bronze 
medallion  by  A.  Baer,  oval.  12  x  14.  [See  Hannaford,  Life  of 
George  Peabody;  various  encyclopedias,  etc.,  for  benefactions.] 


Peabody,  Joseph,  1757  - 1844.    By  Charles  Osgood.    28  x  66. 

Merchant  of  Salem.  After  an  adventurous  life  in  Revolution- 
ary privateers,  he  bought  and  commanded  the  schooner  Three 
Friends  in  which  he  made  several  voyages,  but  soon  gave  up  the 
sea  for  mercantile  pursuits  and  became  one  of  the  most 
eminent  merchants  of  Salem.  [See  Paine,  Ships  and  Sailors 
of  Old  Salem,  p.  225.] 


Phipps,  John  Adams,   1803  - 1866.    Painted  abroad.    23  x  27. 
Ship-master  of  Salem. 


PiCKMAN,    Dudley    Leavitt,    1779  - 1846.       By  A.   Hartwell  after 
Chester  Harding.    30  x  36. 

Merchant  of  Salem.    Member  E.  L  M.  Soc,  1800,  and  Pres- 
ident, 1817  - 1820. 


Potter,  John,  1781-1820.    Painted  abroad  about  1807,  oval.    17x21. 
Ship-master. 


Pratt,  Joseph,   1754  - 1832.     By  Henry  C.  Pratt,  son  of  Captain 
Pratt.     25  x  30. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  In  the  American  Revolution  he  com- 
manded Elias  Hasket  Derby's  privateer  ship  Grand  Turk,  28 
guns,  140  men. 


Preston,  Joseph,  1780  - 1840.      By  Michael  Vervoort  of  Antwerp, 

1820.  27x32. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1821.  Com- 
manded brig  Wild  Goose,  1817. 

Putnam,  Allen,  1794  - 1868.    By  Charles  Osgood.    22  x  26. 

Ship-master  and  merchant  of  Salem.     Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc, 

1821,  and  President,  1857  - 1864.     Commanded  brig  Governor 
Endicoit,  1833. 

Reith,  John  17 18—.     Painted  abroad.     14  x  17. 

Ship-master  of  Salem. 

Reynolds,  Stephen,  1782-1857.    By  J.  M.  Stanley,  Honolulu,  1848. 
26  X  32. 

Of  West  Boxford,  Mass.  Harbor-master  of  Honolulu,  H.  T., 
where  he  resided  from  1823  -  1855. 

Richardson,  Addison,  1804  - 1871.    Miniature. 

Ship-master.  Commanded  ships  Charlemagne,  1828  -  1838, 
Duchesse  d' Orleans,  1838.  [See  Richardson  memorial  collection 
in  Marine  Room.] 

Richardson,   Isaac,   1796  - 1834.    Painted  abroad.     12  x  18. 

Ship-master.     Brother  of  Captain  Addison  Richardson. 

Robinson,  John,  1846 .    By  Frank  W.  Benson,  1916.    38  x  48. 

Honorary  member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1869.  Trustee  Peabody 
Museum  of  Salem  since  1875. 

Rogers,  John  Whitingham,  1786  - 1872.    By  Miss  Georgine  Camp- 
bell, 1916.     29  x  36. 
Merchant  of  Salem.     Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1840. 


Rogers,  Nathaniel  L.,  1785  - 1858.    9x11. 

Ship-master  and  merchant  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc, 
1813,  and  President,  1820  -  1821.  Commanded  ship  Java, 
1810;   opened  American  trade  with  Austraha. 

Rogers,  Richard  Saltonstall,   1790  - 1823.    By  Robert    Hinkley, 
1888.     26  X  33. 

Merchant  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1819,  and  Pres- 
ident, 1836  - 1839.  The  three  Rogers  members  of  the  E.  I.  M. 
Soc.  were  brothers  and  together  were  engaged  in  mercantile 
pursuits  in  Salem. 

Ropes,  Andrew  M.,   1830  - 1910.     Painted  abroad.     18  x  24. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Commanded  ship  Raduga  of  Boston, 
1863. 


Rhuee,  Thomas, 1814.    Painted  abroad.    17  x  20. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.    Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1805. 

Safford,  Joshua,  1779  - 1843.    Painted  abroad,  1835.     15  x  19. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Commanded  brig  Laura  of  Salem 
after  1827. 

Said  bin  Sultan,  Seyyid  (Prince),  1804  -1856.  Painted  about  1855 
by  Lieut.  Lynch.  11  x  13.  C  Another,  copy  of  the  first,  by 
George  Southward   of  Salem.     10  x  12. 

"Sultan"  of  Zanzibar.  Seyyid  Said  made  a  treaty  with  the 
United  States  in  1833  and,  beginning  with  Richard  Palmer 
Waters  in  1836,  eleven  Salem  ship-masters  and  merchants  in 
turn  followed  as  American  Consuls  at  Zanzibar.  With  the 
Consuls  and  merchants  Seyyid  Said  had  constant  intercourse. 
The  museum  possesses  several  letters  from  Seyyid  Said,  the 
Imaum  of  Muscat,  and  other  native  rulers  and  merchants,  and 
two  Aden  coffee  contracts,  all  beautifully  inscribed  in  Arabic 
characters.     One    letter,    about     1851.    from    the    Sultan   to 


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Michael  Shepard,  Esq.,  of  Salem,  refers  to  a  diamond  ring 
which  he  sends  him;  the  ring  itself  came  into  possession  of 
the  museum  thru  the  kindness  of  a  member  of  the  family  of 
Mr.  Shepard. 

Saul,  Thomas,  1787  -  1875.     Painted  abroad.     24  x  28. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1820.  Cap- 
tain Saul  was  the  last  custodian  of  the  society's  museum  pre- 
vious to  the  transfer  to  the  Peabodv  Museum  Trustees  in 
1867. 

ScOBiE,  John  J.,  1808  -  1857.     Painted  abroad  about  1845.     10  x  12. 

Ship-master  of  Salem  and  Boston.  The  ship  in  which  he 
made  his  last  voyage  was  never  heard  from  after  leaving  port. 

Sears,  John  Henry,  1843  - 1910.    By  I.  H.  Caliga,  1908.    32  x  41. 

Curator  of  botany,  mineralogy  and  geology,  at  the  Peabody 
Museum  of  Salem,  1892  - 1910. 


SiLSBEE,  Nathaniel,    1773  - 1850.     By    A.  Hartwell   after    Chester 
Harding.     30  x  36. 

Ship-master  and  merchant  of  Salem.    Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc, 
1799.     United  States  Senator  from  Massachusetts,  1826  - 1835. 


Smith,  Samuel,  1798  - 1838.    24  x  30. 
Ship-master  of  Salem. 

Story,  William,  1774  - 1864.     Probably  painted  in  China.     22  x  26. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.     Commanded  the  ships  Marquis  de 
Somerulas,  1800;   Friendship,  1803. 


Townsend,  Penn,  1772  - 1846.     Painted  abroad.     24  x  30.     €1  Also, 
miniature. 


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AHMET   BEN    HAMAN 
High  official  of  Muscat. 


SEYYID    SAID 
Sultan  of  Zanzibar. 


ESHING  NASSERWANJEE 

Merchant  of  Canton.  Merchant  of  Bombay. 

PORTRAITS   OF   ORIENTALS 


Ship-master  of  Salem.  Commanded  schooners  Olive  Branch, 
1793;  Whim,  1795;  brig  Rambler,  1801;  brigantines  Martha, 
1803;  Telemachus,  1809;  brig  Eunice,  1817  and  privateer 
schooners  Macedonian  and  Frolic  in  the  War  of  1812;  he  was  a 
Lieutenant  in  the  U.  S.  Revenue  service. 


Upton,  Charles,  1824  - 1865.    25  x  31. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.     Commanded  bark  Edward  Koppisch, 
1852. 


Vespucci,  Amerigo,  1451  - 1512.    An  old   painting,  formerly  in  the 
Old  Boston  Museum,  Tremont  St.,  Boston.     21  x  24. 

Discoverer,  navigator. 


Ward,  Andrew,  1793  - 1860.    By  Charles  Osgood.    25  x  31. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1830.  Made 
the  first  entry  at  Zanzibar  in  the  (then  an  unusual  rig)  three- 
masted  schooner  Spy  in  1827  and  commanded  the  bark  Said 
bin  Sultan,  1856. 


Ward,  Samuel  Curwen,  1767  - 1817.    18  x  23. 

Supercargo  on  Salem  vessels;    clerk  on  the  voyage  of  the 
Cleopatra's  Barge  to  the  Mediterranean,  1817. 


Ward,  William  Raymond  Lee,  1811  - 1898.    22  x  26. 

Supercargo  and  merchant  of  Salem.     Son  of  Samuel  Curwen 
Ward. 


Weld,  Charles  Goddard,  M.  D.,  1858  - 1911.    By  Frederick  Quinby 
of  Boston,  1918.     30  x  36. 

Benefactor  of  the  Peabody  Museum  of  Salem, 
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West,  Nathaniel,  1756  - 1851.    By  C.  R.  Leslie.     28  x  36. 

Ship-master,  privateersman  and  merchant  of  Salem.  After 
man3^  adventures  in  early  Revolutionary  privateers,  he  com- 
manded the  ship  Black  Prince,  18  guns  and  160  men,  and 
the  ships  Junius  and  Oliver  Cromwell  As  a  merchant  he 
owned  many  famous  Salem  ships.  [See  Paine,  Ships  and 
Sailors  of  Old  Salem,  p.  207.] 

Wheatland,    Richard,    1762  - 1830.      Copy  of  a  foreign  painting. 
18  X  24. 

Ship-master  and  merchant  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc, 
1800.  In  early  life  he  was  in  the  British  navy  but  settled  in 
Salem  about  1783.  Commanded  the  ship  Perseverance  and  was 
at  Canton,  China,  in  1798,  and  successfully  engaged  a  French 
privateer  in  our  naval  war  with  France  in  1799.  [See  letter 
and  account  in  Hurd,  History  of  Essex  County,  vol.  I,  p.  68.] 

White,  George  F.    19  x  24. 

Ship-master  of  Salem  about  1840. 

Whittredge,   Henry  Trask,    1794-1830.       Painted   about    1820. 
25  x  32. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.     Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1823. 

Winn,  Francis  Augustus.    Painted  about  1840.    18  x  24. 
Ship-master  of  Salem. 

Silhouettes 
Cheever,  Josiah  Choate,  1809  - 1851. 

Cleveland,  George,  1781  - 1840.     "Bache's  patent"  (stamped). 

Ship-master  of  Salem.     Member  of  E.  I.  M.  Soc.  1821,  and 
President,  1827-1830. 

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Cleveland,  Elizabeth  (Hodges). 

Wife  of  Capt.  George  Cleveland. 

Emery,   Captain  Noah.    Cut   by   Moses   Chapman    about   1835. 
Ship-master. 

Goodhue,  Hon.  Benjamin,  1784  - 1814.    Full  length. 

Merchant  of  Salem.     U.  S.  Senator,  1784  - 1789. 

Hodges,  Benjamin,  1754-1806.     "King"  (stamped). 

Ship-master.    Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,    1799,   and  President 
1799  - 1806. 

Hodges,  Mrs.  Benjamin.    "King"  (stamped). 
Wife  of  Capt.  Benjamin  Hodges. 

Hodges,  Jonathan,  1764  - 1837. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.     Member   E.  I.  M.  Soc,   1799,  and 
first  secretary  of  the  society,' 1799  - 1801. 

Mansfield,  Charles,  1801  - 1868. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.     Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1835. 

Pickman,  Dudley  Leavitt,  1779  - 1846. 
[See  Painted  Portraits.] 

Rhoades,  Charles,  1823  - 1862.    Full  length. 
Ship-master  of  Salem. 

Robinson,  James.    Cut  by  Moses  Chapman  about  1835. 
Ship-master. 


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Saunders,  Jonathan  P.,  1785-1844.     "Bache's  patent"  (stamped). 
Supercargo  of  Salem. 

Vanderford,  Benjamin,  1787  - 1842. 

Ship-master  of  Salem.  Member  E.  I.  M.  Soc,  1820.  On 
the  Wilkes  Exploring  Expedition,  1837  -  1842,  at  the  time  of 
his  death. 

West,  Nathaniel.  1756  - 1851.    Full  length. 
[See  Painted  Portraits.] 

West,  Captain.    Cut  by  Moses  Chapman  about  1835. 
Williams,  Captain.    Cut  by  Moses  Chapman  about  1835. 
WiLLOBY,  Captain.    Cut  by  Moses  Chapman  about  1835. 

ST.A.TUARY 

Gray,  William,  1750  -  1825.     Marble  bust  by  Henry  Dexter. 
Salem  merchant.     [See  Painted  Portraits.] 

DUTTE,  Rajendra.     Life-size  figure,  seated.     A  gift  to  the  museum 
in  1848. 
Native  merchant  of  Calcutta,  India. 

Ghose,   Durgha  Prasanna.     Life-size  figure,  seated.     A  gift  to  the 
museum  before  1850. 

Native  merchant   of  Calcutta,    India. 

MiTTER,  Rajkissen.     Life-size  figure,  seated.     A  gift  to  the  museum 
in  1838. 

Native  merchant  of  Calcutta,  India. 

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YAMQUA 
Merchant   of   Canton.     Head   and    hands   carved   by 
Samuel  Mclntire.     1801. 


CHINESE    MANDARIN 

Head  and  hands  carved  by  Joseph  True.     1838. 


The  last  three  figures  are  moulded  in  clay,  are  seated  in 
chairs  made  in  India  and  are  dressed  in  native  costumes.  [See 
Other  Merchants  and  Sea-Captains  of  Old  Boston,  brochure. 
State  Street  Trust  Company,  1919,  p.  44,  for  account  of 
Radhakissen  Mitter,  head  of  the  mercantile  house  of  Radha- 
kissen  Mitter,  Rajkissen  Mitter  &  Co.  of  Calcutta.] 

Nasserwanjee.  Life-size  figure,  in  a  costume  given  by  him  to  the 
museum  in  1803.  The  head  and  hands  were  carved  by  a 
Salem  wood-carver,  possibly  Samuel  Mclntire,  at  the  same 
date. 

Parsee  merchant  of  Bombay,  India.     ISee  Painted  Portraits.] 

Yamqua.  Life-size  figure,  dressed  in  a  costume  of  his  own,  brought 
from  China  in  1801  by  Capt.  Benjamin  Hodges.  The  head 
and  hands  were  carved  by  Samuel  Mclntire,  the  famous  Salem 
wood-carver  and  architect;  the  museum  has  in  its  possession 
the  original  bill  for  the  work.  The  face  is  wonderfully  well 
done  and  was  probably  carved  from  some  drawing  or  painting. 

Hong  merchant  of  Canton,  China,  1801. 

Mandarin,  Chinese.  Life-size  figure,  dressed  in  a  costume  given  to 
the  E.  I.  M.  Society  by  Abiel  Abbot  Low  in  1838.  The  head 
and  hands  were  carved  by  Joseph  True,  wood-carver,  of  Salem. 


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THE  COLLECTION  OF  FLAGS 

A  large  and  interesting  collection  of  flags  has  incidentally  been 
acquired  in  connection  with  the  development  of  the  Marine  Room. 
They  vary  in  size  from  two  or  three  to  one-hundred  and  forty  square 
feet.  As  it  is  impossible  to  exhibit  them  constantly  on  account  of  the 
great  amoumt  of  space  required,  they  are  cataloged,  preserved  in  tin 
boxes  against  the  attacks  of  moths,  and  may  readily  be  shown  to 
persons  desiring  to  see  any  particular  ones.  Individual  flags  and 
groups  are  shown  from  time  to  time  in  special  exhibitions  and  some  of 
the  ship  flags  are  used  for  decoration  on  public  occasions.  Thru  the 
changes  arising  from  the  Great  War  in  company  and  regimental 
organizations,  many  local  companies  and  regiments  have  ceased  to 
exist  as  formerly  or  do  so  under  very  different  conditions.  A  number 
of  the  old  organizations  have  deposited  their  colors  with  the  museum 
for  preservation,  —  the  Salem  Cadets,  the  Salem  Light  Infantry,  the 
Eighth  Regiment  Massachusetts  National  Guard,  the  Fifteenth  Regi- 
ment Massachusetts  State  Guard,  and  by  bequest  the  colors  of  the 
Twenty-third  Regiment  of  United  States  Infantry.  It  is  planned  in 
the  future  to  arrange  all  of  these  in  a  special  case. 

In  addition  the  collection  includes  a  number  of  charts  in  colors  of 
the  house-flags  and  private  signals  of  the  Salem  merchants,  two  of  the 
charts  being  over  one  hundred  years  old.  A  card  catalog  of  these 
charts  and  of  flags  on  many  of  the  ship  pictures  was  made  in  1910  by 
Mr.  Macpherson,  each  flag  being  shown  on  a  separate  card  in  colors 
with  a  reference  to  the  chart  or  picture  from  which  it  was  taken; 
this  catalog  contains  300  cards. 

The  museum  also  has  a  collection  of  miniature  flags,  photographs, 
maps,  prints,  etc.,  to  show  the  evolution  of  the  American  flag  and  to 
illustrate  other  flags  used  since  the  period  of  discovery  in  the  territory 


at  present  covered  by  the  United  States.  When  on  exhibition  the 
collection  fills  the  entire  corridor  case  36  feet  long,  7  feet  high.  It 
has  been  lent  to  a  number  of  museums  and  libraries  for  exhibition. 

American 

The  Original  "Star  Spangled  Banner."  Pieces,  three  inches 
square  each,  of  the  red,  white  and  blue  of  the  American  flag 
which  flew  over  Fort  McHenry  on  the  night  of  September  12, 
1814,  when  Francis  Scott  Key,  detained  for  the  time  as  a 
prisoner  of  war  in  the  hands  of  the  British,  composed  the 
national  anthem,  "The  Star  Spangled  Banner."  This  precious 
relic  is  absolutely  authenticated  through  continuous  owner- 
ship in  the  Preble  family  until  placed  in  the  Museum,  1913. 

Colors,  National  and  Regimental,  of  the  Twenty-third  U.  S.  Infantry, 
Philippine  War  service. 

Colors,  National  and  State,  of  the  Eighth  Regiment,  Massachusetts 
National  Guard. 

Colors,  National  and  State,  of  the  Second  Corps  of  Cadets  of  Salem. 

Colors,  National,  State  and  markers,  of  the  Salem  Light  Infantry. 

Colors,  National  and  State,  of  the  Fifteenth  Regiment,  Massachusetts 
State  Guard. 

Colors  of  the  Essex  Guards  of  Salem,  1814,  white  silk  with  central 
designs  painted  by  Sam.uel  Bartoll,  and  with  original  staf^, 
tassels  and  supporter. 

American  Flags,  three,  post,  garrison  and  storm,  used  by  Col. 
Philip  Reade,  23d  U.  S.  Infantry,  while  in  command,  of  the 
Military  Department  of  Mindanao,  P.  I.,  1903  -  1905. 

American  Flag.  Garrison  flag  of  Eighth  Regiment,  Mass.  National, 
Guard,  while  in  Cuba  during  the  Spanish- American  War. 


American  Flag  used  by  Albert  G.  Browne  of  Salem,  on  the  office  ot 
the  U.  S.  Treasury,  Beaufort,  S.  C,  1864. 

American  Flag  made  by  a  native  tailor  at  Zanzibar  for  Edward  D. 
Ropes,  Esq.,  of  Salem,  for  his  use  as  U.  S.  Consul  at  that  port. 

American  Jack,  also  American  flag,  with  unusual  arrangement  of  the 
stars,  about  1823. 

American  Flag,  small,  worn  by  a  tender  of  the  yacht  America  about 
1865. 

American  Flag,  silk,  from  the  yacht  Cleopatra's  Barge,  1817,  with 
fifteen  stripes  and  fifteen  stars. 

American  Flag  worn  by  the  bark  Dragon  of  Salem,  1850. 

American  Pennant  worn  by  the  ship  Ion  about  1870. 

American  Jack  worn  by  the  U.  S.  S.  Kearsarge  at  the  time  of  her  loss 
on  Roncador  Reef  in  1894. 

American  Flag,  small,  and  Massachusetts  State  flag,  large,  used  at 
the  launching  of  the  U.  S.  S.  Salem,  1907. 

American  Flag  worn  by  the  brig  Scion  of  Salem,  Capt.  Nathaniel 
Weston,  1825. 

American  Flag  and  pennant  worn  by  the  ship  R.  C.  Winthrop,  1870. 
American  Flag  worn  by  ship  Witch  of  the  Wave  of  Salem,  1851. 

American  Flags  used  in  Salem  for  patriotic  display  during  the  Civil 
War,  the  Spanish  War,  the  Mexican  Border  service,  and  the 
Great  War. 

Flag,  first  U.  S.  Army  Transport  flag  worn  by  a  vessel  entering  Manila. 

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Red-Cross  Flag  used  on  a  Salem  vessel  about  1873. 

House  Signal  Flag  of  John  F.  Brooks,  merchant  of  Salem  and  Boston, 
1870  -  1914. 

House  Signal  Flag  of  Benjamin  A.  West,  merchant  of  Salem,  1850- 
1860. 

Thirty-eight  Ship  Signal  Flags  used  on  bark  Dragon,  ship  Witch- 
of-the-Wave  and  other  Salem  ships,  1845- 1860. 

Flag,  red,  on  short  pole,  used  to  mark  a  captured  whale,  from  a  New 
Bedford  whaler. 

European 

British  Jack,  large,  given  before  1830  to  Capt.  Nathaniel  Weston 
of  Salem  by  the  officer  of  a  British  Naval  vessel  in  recognition 
of  the  rescue  of  seamen  of  the  British  Navy  by  Capt.  Weston. 

German  and  Russian  Imperial  Flags,  large  saluting  flags,  from 
U.  S.  S.  Olympia,  used  by  Admiral  Dewey  in  Manila  Bay,  1898. 

Italian  Flag,  large,  saluting  flag  of  U.  S.  Navy. 

Portugese  Flag,  large. 

Spanish  Flag,  large,  from  mail  steamer  captured  at  Santiago.  Cuba, 


Miscellaneous 

Fourteen  Flags  of  foreign  nations,  each  two  by  three  feet,  bunting, 
from  Philadelphia,  1876. 

Flags,   native,   from  China,   Cantonese    Artillery,   Boxer    rebels    of 
China;  Japan;    Korea;  Philippine  States. 

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SUMMARY   OF  OTHER  COLLECTIONS  IN  THE 
MARINE  ROOM 

The  Whaling  Collection. 

Arranged  in  the  western  corridor  cases  are  the  objects  illus- 
trating the  natural  history  of  whales  and  the  whaling  industry, 
beginning  with  small  relief  models  and  drawings  of  the  different 
species  of  whales,  a  complete  skeleton  of  a  porpoise  (a  skeleton 
of  a  black-fish  twelve  feet  long  taken  on  Beverly  bar  in  1873 
is  in  the  natural  history  hall  above),  whales'  teeth,  baleen  (the 
so-called  whale-bone  of  commerce),  a  "bonnet,"  which  is  a 
hard  excresence  formed  on  the  frontal  portion  of  the  right 
whale,  usually  infested  by  parasitic  crustaceans  and  may  be 
caused  by  them;  ambergris,  whale  and  sperm  oils,  crude  and 
refined,  "scraps,"  whale  leather,  etc.  The  whale  fishery  is 
represented  by  rigged  models  of  whaling  vessels,  a  Norwegian 
bomb  harpoon  used  on  steam  whaler,  hand  and  bomb-lances, 
bomb-lance  shoulder  guns,  Greener  whaling  gun  and  Pierce 
harpoon  gun,  mincing  knife,  cutting  spades  and  other  appli- 
ances; also,  objects  made  by  sailors  on  the  long  whaling  voyages. 
Among  the  builder's  hull  models  of  whaling  vessels  is  one  of  the 
bark  Progress  commanded  by  Capt.  James  Dowden,  famous 
for  his  arctic  experiences.  [See  McKibben,  The  Whaling  Dis- 
aster of  1871,  N.  E.  Magazine,  June,  1898.]  In  1893  the  Pro- 
gress was  taken  to  Chicago  and  exhibited  at  the  World's  Fair. 
It  was  from  the  Chicago  exhibition,  through  the  gift  of  the 
Field  Museum,  that  the  foundation  of  this  whaling  collection 
was  made  in  1907.  While  it  is  not  intended  to  make  the 
whaling  exhibit  exhaustive  as  is  so  admirably  done  at  the  mus- 
eum of  the  Old  Dartmouth  Historical  Society  at  New  Bedford, 
the  fact  that  for  twenty-five  years  whaling  was  conducted  from 
Salem  and  Lynn,  makes  a  typical  collection  illustrating  the 
whaling  industry  very  appropriate  as  well  as  an  important 

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WHALING    IMPLEMENTS,   MOUNTED    READY   FOR   USE 
From  above:   Blubber  fork;   grains  (2),  fcr  handling  blubber,  etc.;   cutting  spades  (3);    lances, 
for  killing  whales  at  close  quarters  (2);  single  and  two  flued  hand  harpoons,  old  type;   head  needle. 


WHALING   GUNS 

From  above:     Brass  Breech-loading  bcmb-lance  shoulder  gun;     two  forms  of  muzzle-ioading  bomb-lance 
shoulder  guns:  Greener  harpoon  gun. 


adjunct  to  our  Essex  County  educational  institutions.  There 
is  also  a  model  28  feet  long,  illustrating  the  fishing  industries 
of  Essex  County,  —  netting,  line  fishing,  lobster  trapping,  etc. 


Figureheads. 

So  far  as  known  there  is  no  large  figurehead  of  any  old  Salem 
ship  in  existence.  The  collection  includes  the  figurehead,  a 
life-size  portrait  bust  painted  in  colors,  of  the  bark  Solomon 
Piper,  wrecked  on  Cape  Cod  in  1861;  the  billet-head  of  the 
ship  Favorite,  wrecked  on  Baker's  Island  in  1855;  a  small 
figurehead  said  to  have  been  made  by  Samuel  Mclntire,  the 
famous  Salem  carver  and  architect;  it  certainly  is  old  and 
the  figure  of  Liberty  appears  to  display  the  head  of  John 
Hancock  on  the  shield  she  carries.  There  is  a  small,  well 
cut  eagle  from  the  yacht  Nellie  G.,  and  a  scroll  from  a  Rockport 
fishing  vessel.  A  large  billet-head  of  bold  scroll  carving  about 
seven  feet  by  three,  very  much  decayed  but  which  has  been 
restored,  is  attributed  to  the  U.  S.  S.  Constitution.  Also,  await- 
ing a  suitable  place  for  its  display  is  the  metal  figurehead  of 
the  U.  S.  S.  Salem,  a  shield  with  scroll-work  wings.  This  is 
very  heavy  but  it  is  hoped  to  build  it  into  a  wall  at  some 
future  time.  [See  also  under  figureheads  in  cabinet  of  folios 
for  many  photographs,  drawings  and  cuts  of  figureheads.] 

Sea-Journals  and  Log-Books. 

Beginning  with  the  foundation  of  the  Salem  East  India  Mar- 
ine Society  in  1799,  an  effort  was  made  to  form  a  collection  of 
log-books  and  sea- journals,  so  that  the  observations  recorded 
should  be  of  service  to  future  navigators,  for  at  that  time  there 
were  no  charts  by  which  the  Salem  ship-masters  could  navigate 
their  ships  on  voyages  to  regions  new  to  the  commerce  of  that 
day.  In  recent  years  the  Essex  Institute  has  undertaken  the 
care  and  cataloging  of  all  log-books  and  sea-journals  received, 
in  connection  with  its  library  work.  The  collection  is  kept  in 
the  "fire-proof"  of  the  Institute  and  now  contains  1200  logs 
and  journals.  It  includes  all  the  early  logs  and  journals,  with 
their  copious  notes  and  observations,  kept  by  the  members  of 

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the  East  India  Marine  Society  and  all  logs  since  received  by  the 
Peabody  Museum,  besides  the  Institute's  own  large  collection. 
These  logs  may  be  consulted  at  the  Institute  under  proper  re- 
strictions. A  duplicate  card  catalog  of  the  entire  collection  is 
kept  at  the  Marine  Room  of  the  Peabody  Museum  where  it 
may  be  referred  to  at  any  time.  Persons  having  logs  either 
old  or  recent  are  urged  to  add  them  to  this  collection  for  altho 
of  minor  interest  individually,  when  a  part  of  a  large  col- 
lection they  become  important  and  of  great  assistance  to 
students  of  maritime  history  and  commerce. 

Ship's  Chests,  Sea  Chests,  Chart  Chests  and  Medicine  Chests. 

The  oldest  chest  is  a  ship's  chest  of  1750;  the  oldest  sailor's 
chest  is  one  marked  "Isaac  Smith  1772,"  others  date  from  that 
to  1840.  The  chests  are  mostly  of  pine  or  other  wood,  painted; 
one  chart  chest  is  of  teak.  One  of  the  medicine  chests  is  from  a 
Salem  whaler  of  1838;  another,  was  carried  all  over  the  world 
by  Capt.  Joseph  Hammond,  1830-1850;  another,  a  fine 
one  of  mahogany,  was  presented  to  Capt.  Addison  Richardson 
by  the  passengers  of  his  ship,  the  Charlemagne,  about  1836. 
Some  of  the  sea  chests  not  only  had  little  lockers  at  one  end 
with  divisions  for  holding  bottles  at  the  other,  but  occasionally 
one  had  a  false  bottom  for  secreting  valuables  and  the  Spanish 
dollars  taken  in  the  old  days  on  trading  voyages  especially  to 
the  East,  attacks  by  enemy  vessels  or  pirates  being  ever  in 
mind.  A  number  of  charts  are  preserved  to  illustrate  the 
manner  of  recording  a  ship's  course;  sometimes  several  courses 
are  marked  on  a  single  chart. 

Drawings,  Photographs,  Prints,  etc. 

In  cabinets,  available  for  examination  on  application,  this 
collection  is  arranged  systematically  in  folios  and  includes  about 
5000  separate  items,  under  such  heads  as:  — ancient  and 
mediaeval  vessels,  sailing  ships  from  the  17th  to  the  20th  cen- 
turies, photographs  of  models  of  vessels,  yachts,  foreign  craft, 
miniature  and  other  models  of  vessels,  steamships  and  steam- 
boats, Salem    ships,  Salem  merchants  and    ship-masters,  the 

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U.  S.  Navy  from  its  inception  to  the  present  time,  vessels  and 
men  of  the  Navy  in  the  Great  War  period,  the  whaling  and 
fishing  industries,  light-houses,  shore  views,  chiefly  North 
American  east  coast,  figureheads  and  stern  designs,  a  large 
collection  of  the  colored  cards  announcing  the  sailings  of  the 
clipper  ships  to  CaHfornia  and  Australia,  1850-1860,  the  his- 
tory of  the  American  flag,  history  of  the  East  India  Marine 
Society  and  of  the  Peabody  Museum,  and  photographs  of 
special  exhibitions  held  at  the  museum.  This  collection  is  an 
interesting  one  and  has  already  proved  useful  to  students  of 
shipping,  artists  and  designers. 

There  are  in  the  collections  forty-five  folio  sheets  of  sail- 
plans,  nearly  all  of  Salem  vessels,  made  between  1852  and 
1877  by  Edward  Lane  whose  sail-loft  was  on  Derby  street, 
and  who  did  a  large  business  in  fitting  out  vessels  with  new 
suits  of  sails  and  furnishing  sails  for  newly  built  vessels.  Most 
of  the  sheets  have  plans  drawn  on  both  sides.  There  are  hull 
designs  and  spar-plans  of  vessels  built  by  John  Taylor  and 
Justin  Taylor  of  Medford  and  Boston,  including  the  Salem 
ships  Panay  and  Mindoro.  There  are  also  several  volumes  of 
engraved  or  etched  plates  of  ships,  some  dating  back  to  1781: 
— M.  Stalkartt,  Plates  of  Naval  Architecture,  1781,  16x23 
inches,  which  belonged  to  Thomas  Barker,  an  old-time  ship- 
builder of  Salem;  Forty  Etchings  of  Vessels,  London,  1824, 
11x8  inches;  E.  W.  Cooke,  Sixty-five  Plates  of  Shipping, 
London,  1829,  9x6  inches;  Arthur  Bertrand's  lithographic 
plates  of  vessels  of  various  countries,  14  x  8  inches;  Admiral 
Paris,  Musee  de  Marine  de  Louvre,  large  plates,  mostly  of 
old  vessels,  16  x  23  inches.  The  library  contains  a  good 
selection  of  books  and  papers  relating  to  shipping,  especially 
such  as  are  of  local  interest. 


Souvenirs  of  Famous  Ships  and  Other  Relics. 

Visitors  show  much  interest  in  pieces  of  wood  or  metal  and 
other  relics,  or  canes  and  gavels  made  from  the  material  of 
ships  that  have  become  famous  in  one  way  or  another. 
While  strictly  speaking  there  is  no  scientific  or  historical 
value  to  such  objects,  they  serve  by  actual  contact  to  fix  in 

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the  mind  of  the  visitor  the  historical  event  —  the  story 
of  the  vessel  or  of  some  person  who  made  the  vessel  famous  — 
so  that  the  maintenance  of  such  a  collection  is  justifiable.  The 
Marine  Room  collection  of  souvenirs  is  arranged  in  table  cases; 
it  is  a  gathering  of  all  sorts  of  objects,  roughly  classified,  each 
specimen  carefully  displayed  and  clearly  labeled.  It  includes 
such  objects  as  pieces  of  wood  or  metal  from  the  Spanish  ship 
Vizcaya,  U.  S.  S.  Niagara  which  laid  the  first  Atlantic  cable, 
Amundsen's  ship  Gjoa,  U.  S.  S.  Congress,  Monitor,  C.  S.  A. 
Merrimac,  U.  S.  S.  Constitution,  Kearsarge,  Capt.  Cook's  ship 
Endeavour,  1771.  H.  B.  M.  Guerriere.  1812.  Somerset  1775,  and 
many  others. 

Swords  and  Other  Arms. 

This  collection  includes:  —  Dress  swords  of  WiUiam  Mc- 
MuUan,  Esq.,  U.  S.  Consul  at  Zanzibar,  1852  -  1856;  of  Captain 
John  Crowninshield,  worn  by  him  at  the  coronation  of  Napoleon 
I;  of  Captain  John  Gibaut,  presented  to  him  by  friends  when 
Collector  of  the  port  of  Gloucester,  1804;  of  Captain  John 
Williams,  U.  S.  Consul  at  Fiji,  1835.  Cutlasses  of  Captain 
Nathaniel  Silsbee  (later  U.  S.  Senator  from  Massachusetts), 
1790;  of  Captain  Henry  King,  1818;  the  cutlass  and  pistol 
of  Captain  Nathaniel  Weston,  1820;  the  naval  sword  of 
Captain  Thomas  C.  Dunn,  1863.  In  the  early  days  of  Salem 
commerce  all  vessels  were  armed  and  all  officers  carried  cut- 
lasses and  pistols.  In  the  enclosure  in  front  of  the  building 
are  the  signal  gun  of  the  whaler  Progress  and  a  howitzer  of  old 
type  brought  from  Manila. 

There  are  also  in  the  collection  boarding  pikes  and  axes  used 
in  the  days  of  hand-to-hand  encounters  on  vessels,  a  "tower 
musket"  for  use  by  British  marines  during  the  American 
Revolution,  taken  in  1779;  American  musket  owned  by  Capt. 
Thomas  C.  Dunn,  U.  S.  Navy,  1863;  musket  from  the  whaler 
Progress,  1860,  and  other  weapons. 

Knots  and  Splices;  Chest  Beckets  (Handles),  etc. 

A  collection  of  sailors'  knots  and  splices  used  on  ship  board  and 
a  number  of  curiously  wrought  "beckets,"  rope  handles  made 

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by  sailors  to  attach  to  sea-chests,  may  be  found  in  one  of  the 
table  cases  in  the  Marine  Room.  There  are  several  excellent 
books  on  knots  and  splices  which  have  appeared  with  the 
renewed  interest  in  the  subject  and  which  may  be  obtained  for 
consultation  at  libraries  or  purchased  of  book  dealers:  — 
"Knots"  by  A.  F.  Aldridge,  Rudder  Publishing  Co.,  New 
York,  160  pages,  illustrated.  "Knots  and  Splices"  by  A. 
Hyatt  Verrill,  Henly  Publishing  Co.,  New  York,  102  pages, 
illustrated.  "Knots,  Bends  and  Splices,"  printed  in  the 
Yachtsman's  Guide  for  several  years  (in  ed.  1908,  pp.  173  - 184). 
"How  to  Make  Knots,  Bends  and  Splices"  by  T.  E.  Biddle, 
London,  Norie  and  Wilson,  illustrated,  18  pages.  These  books 
cost  about  one  dollar  each.  A  "  cat-o-nine-tails "  and  a  slung- 
shot  from  old  vessels  are  in  the  collection,  besides  a  piece  of  the 
cable  of  a  vessel  sunk  in  the  Penobscot  in  1779;  a  piece  of  a 
cable  used  at  the  launching  of  the  U.  S.  S.  Salem,  1907;  and  of 
the  great  cable  used  in  towing  the  drv  dock  Dewey  to  Manila, 
1904. 


Tools  of  Ship-Builders,  Ship  Carpenters,  Riggers  and  Coopers. 

Many  of  the  ship-carpenters'  and  ship-builders'  tools  date 
from  the  18th  century  and  a  few  probably  from  the  17th,  all 
from  before  1840.  It  is  not  certain  for  what  purposes  some  of 
the  tools  were  used.  Among  them  are:  —  the  axe  used  by 
Zaccheus  Goldsmith,  ship-carpenter  who  worked  on  the  frigate 
Essex  in  1799;  the  adz  used  by  Retire  Becket,  the  builder  of 
the  Cleopatra's  Barge  in  1816;  besides  other  axes,  large  and 
small,  some  quite  rudely  made;  planes  of  many  sorts,  augers, 
measures,  primitive  hammers,  pincers,  etc.  The  riggers'  tools 
include  an  old  set  of  serving-mallets  of  very  large  size  used  by 
New  Bedford  riggers,  with  reels  and  long  arms  arranged  to  gain 
great  purchase,  and  a  number  of  small  serving-mallets  from 
Salem  ships.  Among  the  coopers'  tools  are  many  from  old 
Salem  cooper-shops.  This  collection  cannot  always  be  shown 
but  is  reserved  for  special  exhibitions.  In  addition  are  caulkers' 
tools,  hammers,  irons  and  caulkers'  seats,  from  1820  to  1850. 


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AN'CHORS. 

In  front  of  the  East  India  Marine  building  on  Essex  St.  stands 
an  anchor  eleven  feet  high  received  in  1906  from  the  Boston 
Navy  Yard  through  the  courtesy  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy, 
Charles  J.  Bonaparte.  This  anchor,  originally  weighing  4000 
pounds,  was  hand  forged  about  1820  and  under  some  great 
strain,  probably  during  a  gale,  was  given  the  very  noticeable 
twist  in  the  shank.  As  an  anchor  is  the  emblem  of  the  Salem 
East  India  Marine  Society,  for  whom  the  building  was  erected 
in  1824,  the  placing  of  this  large,  old-time  anchor  at  the  front  is 
very  appropriate.  There  are  a  number  of  small  anchors  of 
various  patterns  in  the  collection  besides  grapnels  and  sand- 
anchors  and  three  fine  killicks  (spelled  also  killock  and  killagh) 
which  have  been  in  actual  use.  The  killick,  which  is  a  stone 
enclosed  in  a  framework  of  wood  with  wooden  prongs  projecting 
from  the  base,  has  been  long  in  use  on  the  coast  of  New  Hamp- 
shire, Maine  and  the  Maritime  Provinces,  in  the  British  islands, 
in  parts  of  Europe  and  similar  ones  are  found  in  Brazil.  One 
of  the  three  in  the  collection,  used  as  a  mooring  anchor  on  a 
sandy  bottom  at  Hampton,  N.  H.,  is  five  feet  high,  the  next 
in  size  is  a  boat  anchor  and  the  smallest,  one  foot  high,  for 
nets.  [See  "Killicks,"  R.  Morton  Nance,  in  Man,  an  anthro- 
pological journal,  vol.  XIX,  p.  113;  also,  the  same  author  in 
The  Mariner's  Mirror,  London,  vol.  HI,  p.  295.]  There  is  also 
a  ship's  drag  or  sea-anchor,  used  more  than  one  hundred  years 
ago,  from  the  old  store-house  and  counting-room  of  William 
Gray  on  DerbySt.,  Salem,  destroyed  in  the  fire  of  June,  1914, 
which  when  its  heavy  wooden  wings  are  opened  like  an  umbrella 
has  a  spread  seven  feet  in  diameter.  The  sea-anchor  was  used 
to  keep  a  vessel's  head  to  the  wind  in  storms  and  one  similar 
to  this  was  used  to  haul  against  in  a  calm  by  the  U.  S.  S.  Con- 
stitution to  aid  her  in  escaping  from  the  British  fleet,  July,  1812. 

Skeets. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  objects  in  the  collection  is  a 
"skeet,"made  of  wood,  seven  feet  long,  narrow,  nearly  half  its 
length  curved  and  hollowed  to  a  scoop  about  three  inches 
wide.  The  "skeet"  is  figured  in  Blanckley's  Naval  Expositor, 
London,   1750,  and  is  "for  weting  yachts  sails  or  the  ship's 

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sides  in  the  Summer  Season."  This  specimen  also  came  from 
the  store-house  of  WilUam  Gray  and  is  probably  at  least  125 
years  old. 

Lanterns  and  Lamps. 

A  large,  wooden  framed  cabin  lantern  used  before  1750  by 
Captain  Samuel  Page;  large  iron  framed  lantern  from  an  old 
Gloucester  fishing  vessel;  lanterns  from  whaling  vessels,  wooden 
and  iron  frames;  port  and  starboard  lights,  red  and  green 
glass,  before  1850;  single  convex  lens  used  in  the  lantern  of  a 
light-house  on  Minot's  Ledge,  Mass.,  earlier  than  that  destroyed 
in  1851;  swinging  pewter  lamps  used  on  old  vessels  and  swing- 
ing candlesticks. 


Scrimshaw  Work. 

An  excellent  representation  of  this  cutting,  carving  and 
engraving  by  sailors,  on  whales'  teeth  and  walrus  tusks.  The 
collection  includes  representations  of  ships,  Chinchilla  and 
Tamaahnaah  on  one  tooth,  Carolina  Augusta,  Elizabeth,  Susan 
of  Nantucket,  Essex,  Constitution  and  Guerriere,  two  ships 
engraved  by  Charles  Erskine,  1838,  whaling  scenes  on  two 
teeth  fitted  end  to  end,  other  scenes  and  male  and  female  figures 
and  heads.  These  date  from  1820  to  1840  and  are  all  on 
whales'  teeth.  Also,  jagging  wheels,  blocks,  two  swifts,  one 
with  much  inlaid  work,  carpenter's  square,  bodkins,  ornaments, 
busks,  "pick- wicks,"  etc.,  made  of  whale  pan  bone  and  ivory, 
besides  engravings  on  walrus  tusks  and  on  porpoise  jaws. 
There  are  several  boxes  with  engraved  baleen  sides  but  with 
wooden  tops  and  bottoms  and  canes  made  from  pan  bone  and 
sections  of  baleen,  other  canes  of  wood,  souvenirs  of  well  known 
ships. 


Miscellaneous. 

Speaking-trumpets  used  on  Salem  ships,  one  telescopic  ex- 
tending to  forty  inches;  another,  ship  Witch-oJ-the-Wave,  1853; 
another,  silver  plated,  Capt.  Addison  Richardson.  1838.     Ship- 

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masters'  folding  desks  of  mahogany  and  some  of  other  woods 
made  in  China.  Chinese  leather  covered,  camphor- wood  chest 
of  Captain  WiUiam  Cleveland,  1820.  "Cat-head"  from  the 
U.  S.  S.  Brooklyn;  portion  of  a  greenheart  plank  from  Admiral 
Peary's  arctic  ship  Roosevelt.  Relics  of  the  U.  S.  S.  Maine  sunk 
in  Havana  harbor  1898,  raised  1912,  including  a  port  light 
frame,  3  inch  shot,  cartridges  and  inscribed  silver  pitcher  given 
to  Com.  Caspar  Crowninshield,  a  former  commander.  Alarm 
or  battle  rattles  from  U.  S.  vessels  of  war,  a  stationary  one 
from  the  U.  S.  S.  Omaha,  and  hand  rattles  from  other  vessels. 


Memorial  Gifts  and  Bequests. 

Many  portraits,  ship  pictures,  ship  models,  etc.  have  been 
received  by  bequest  or  given  as  memorials  of  persons  connected 
with  the  Salem  East  India  Marine  Society  or  with  the  old-time 
commercial-marine  activities  of  Salem.  Among  these  are  the 
Captain  Charles  Beadle  collection  of  nautical  instruments  and 
books  given  by  his  widow;  the  Dr.  Nathaniel  Bowditch  relics 
given  by  members  of  the  family;  the  Edward  Richardson 
memorial  gift,  nautical  instruments,  ship  paintings,  etc.,  given 
by  Mrs.  Kate  S.  Richardson  in  memory  of  her  husband,  whose 
father  and  grandfather  were  ship-masters  of  Salem  and  New 
York,  the  latter  a  foundation  member  of  the  Salem  East  India 
Marine  Society;  the  Parker  memorial  gifts;  the  McMullan 
gift;  Cleopatra's  Barge  relics,  besides  numerous  portraits  of 
merchants  and  ship-masters  of  Salem.  The  museum  offers  an 
admirable  and  appropriate  repository  for  such  gifts  which  are 
most  gladly  accepted  and  suitably  marked. 

Relics  of  the  Salem  East  India  Marine  Society. 

This  society  established  the  museum  in  1799.  The  objects 
which  were  recorded  as  the  first  gift  in  November  of  that  year 
are:  —  a  "Batta  pipe  from  Sumatra,"  "elephant's  grinder," 
"wine-glass  made  from  the  horn  of  a  rhinoceros,"  and  "a  Kemo 
from  Tappanooly,"  the  last  being  a  shell  of  the  giant  clam, 
Tridacna.  All  of  these  are  still  preserved  in  the  collection, 
having  been  on  exhibition  for  nearly  a  century  and  a  quarter. 

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ROPE-WORK 
From  left;   Chest  beckets  (3);    imitation  of  spun  yarn  prick,  for  smuggling  tobacco;    spun  yarn  prick; 
stopper,  to  hold  rope  for  splicing,  etc. 


OLD-TIME    PUNISHMENTS 
From  left:   Leg  irons  on  chain;   handcuffs:   leg  irons  on  bar;   slung  shot;   brass  knuckles;   colt  and  cat- 
o' -nine-tails,  for  flogging;  belaying  pin  of  whale  pan  bone. 


In  a  standing  case  in  the  Marine  Room  are  the  punch  bowls 
and  the  soup  tureens  given  the  society,  —  which  was  a  social 
and  mutual  benefit  club  as  well  as  a  scientific  institution,  — 
and  used  at  the  annual  banquets.  Included  are :  —  a  punch- 
bowl of  Chinese  porcelain  (so-called  Lowestoft  ware),  16  inches 
in  diameter,  brought  from  Canton  by  the  ship  Grand  Turk  in 
1786  and  so  inscribed;  two  punch-bowls  of  Liverpool  ware,  13 
inches  in  diameter,  with  the  Constellation  and  Insurgente  engage- 
ment and  other  designs,  inscribed  to  the  socety  and  given  by 
Captain  George  Hodges  in  1800;  a  punch-bowl  of  EngHsh 
Staffordshire  ware,  12  inches  in  diameter,  gilt  and  color  decora- 
tions, the  gift  of  the  makers,  Messrs.  J.  and  W.  Ridgeway  in 
1823,  one  of  the  firm  having  been  entertained  in  Salem  a  short 
time  before;  two  soup  tureens  in  the  characteristic  form  of 
Chinese  geese,  22  inches  long,  14  wide  and  21  high,  of  Chinese 
cream  porcelain  (so-called  Lowestoft),  the  gift  of  a  member  of 
the  society  in  1803.  Hanging  from  the  ceiling  are  two  crystal 
chandeliers  for  candles,  probably  Venetian,  given  the  society 
by  one  of  its  Presidents,  Captain  Benjamin  Carpenter,  in  1804. 
There  are  several  decorated  plates  and  pitchers  in  the  collection, 
two  candle  sconces  and  many  smaller  objects  connected  with 
the  social  character  of  the  society,  together  with  documents, 
and  autograph  letters  from  Presidents  Jefferson  and  Madison, 
acknowledging  the  receipt  of  the  first  printed  catalog  of  the 
museum  in  1821  and  commending  the  work  of  the  institution. 
[See  various  catalogs  and  manuals  of  the  Salem  East  India 
Marine  Society,  The  Visitors  Guide  to  Salem,  etc.] 


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"''**^*^' 


CABIN   LANTERN 
Used  on  vessels  by  Capt.  Samuel  Page  of  Danvers 
before  1750.     2  feet  high. 


SPEAKING   TRUMPETS 
From  left:    Capt.  Edward  Weston  of  Salem,  ship  Joseph 
Peabody.  1856;    telescopic,  extending  to  40  inches,  abcut 
1840:    Capt.    Joseph    Hardy  Millett.    ship   Witch    o»    the 

Wave  of  Salem,   1851. 


APPENDIX 

Ship-Building  and  Ship-Builders 

Painters  of  the  Ship-Pictures 

Painters  of  the  Portraits 

BOATS  AND  MODELS  IN   THE  ETHNOLOGICAL  COLLECTIONS 

References 


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SCRIMSHAW   WORK 

On  left:    Busk,  used  in  ladies'  stays.     From  top:    Jagging  wheels  (4),  for  crimping  tlie  edges  of  pastry; 
seam  rubber;  serving  beard;  pickwick;  shoemaker's  tocl;  bodkin;  blocks. 


SHIP-BUILDING  AND  SHIP-BUILDERS 

Salem 

Ship-building  in  Salem  practically  began  with  the  settlement  of 
the  town.  Six  ship-builders  were  sent  over  from  England  by  the  parent 
company  in  1629,  three  years  after  Roger  Conant  settled  at  Naum- 
keag.  Most  of  the  vessels  built  here  at  first  were  shallops  —  a  small 
vessel  or  large  boat  probably  with  two  masts  and  lug  sails  —  and  it  is 
probable  that  the  six  ship-builders  were  scattered  thruout  the  colony. 
As  early  as  1607  a  vessel  of  thirty  tons  was  built  at  the  mouth  of  the 
Kennebec  river  in  Maine  by  the  Popham  colonists  and  vessels  were 
built  at  Bermuda  before  1610.  The  first  vessel  of  any  considerable 
size  built  in  the  Massachusetts  colony  was  launched  in  1631  on  the 
Mystic  river  at  Medford  and  named  by  Gov.  Winthrop  Blessing  of  the 
Bay. 

In  Salem,  the  Neck  was  the  chief  location  of  the  industry;  Richard 
Hollingworth  built  a  ship  there  of  300  tons  in  1641;  Joseph  Hardy 
built  the  American  Merchant  of  160  tons  in  1709  and  Ebenezer  Lam- 
bert built  the  sloop  Betty  in  1712  for  which  he  was  paid  240  pounds 
sterling,  a  goodly  sum  of  money  in  those  days.  [See  Felt's  Annals; 
Osgood  and  Batchelder,  Sketch  of  Salem.]  Later,  vessels  were 
built  at  the  foot  of  Norman  street,  at  the  foot  of  Liberty  street,  at  the 
foot  of  Elm  street,  at  Frye's  mills  near  Goodhue  street,  and  elsewhere. 
From  1655,  the  Beckets  built  vessels  at  a  ship-yard  near  the  present 
Phillips  wharf  at  the  lower  end  of  Derby  street  and  some  member  of 
the  family  continued  the  business  in  that  neighborhood  until  the 
death  of  Daniel  C.  Becket  in  1887,  a  period  of  237  years.  The  most 
noted  member  of  the  family  was  Retire  Becket  (1754  -  1831)  who 
built  many  of  the  famous  Salem  ships  from  1798  to  1818,  including 

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Elias  Hasket  Derby's  Mount  Vernon,  the  ship  Margaret,  the 
privateer  America,  and  George  Crowninshield's  yacht  Cleopatra  s 
Barge. 

Enos  Briggs  (1746  -  1819)  came  from  Pembroke,  Mass.,  in  1790 
and  estabHshed  a  ship-yard  in  South  Salem,  west  of  the  old  Union 
street  bridge  on  land  now  covered  by  the  Naumkeag  Mills.  He  built 
many  fine  ships,  including  Elias  Hasket  Derby's  "Great  Ship"  the 
second  Grand  Turk  of  564  tons  in  1791;  the  frigate  Essex  in  1799, 
which,  however,  was  built  on  Winter  Island,  and  at  his  own  yard  he 
built  many  of  the  fleet  of  merchant  ships  owned  by  Joseph  Peabody, 
including  the  Catherine,  Francis,  Glide  and  China. 

Elijah  Briggs  (1762  -  1847),  a  cousin  of  Enos  Briggs,  from  Scituate, 
Mass.,  succeeded  to  his  business  and  continued  ship-building  at  the 
old  location  in  South  Salem.  He  built  among  other  vessels  the  Gov. 
Endicott,  the  A?nazon,  and  the  brig  Mexican  made  famous  by  her 
adventure  with  pirates  in  1832. 

Christopher  Turner  (1767  -  1812),  who  came  from  Pembroke, 
Mass.,  had  his  ship-yard  at  Frye's  Mills,  near  the  present  Goodhue 
and  Grove  streets.  Besides  the  vessels  built  there  he  built  at  Union 
wharf  on  Derby  street,  in  1801,  the  sloop  Jefferson  for  George  Crown- 
inshield,  Jr.,  believed  to  have  been  the  first  pleasure  yacht  built  in  the 
United  States. 

Ebenezer  Mann  (1758  -  1836),  also  from  Pembroke,  Mass.,  a 
region  famous  as  the  nursery  of  ship-builders,  came  to  Salem  in  1783 
and  had  a  ship-yard  at  Frye's  Mills.  Among  other  vessels,  he  built 
in  1799,  for  Nathaniel  West,  the  ship  Prudent  which  met  with  many 
adventures  during  our  naval  war  with  France. 

David  Magoun  (1779  -  1850)  from  Pembroke,  Mass.,  built  on 
Salem  Neck  the  ship  Alfred  of  200  tons  in  1805  and,  in  partnership 
with  Thomas  Barker  (1780-1856),  also  from  Pembroke,  built  the 
schooners  Enterprise  of  200  tons  in  1812  and  Gen.  Stark  in  1813  in  a 
yard  off  Derby  street  near  Turner  [see  Diary  of  William  Bentley, 
vol.  HI,  p.  56.]  The  museum  possesses  a  large  collection  of  ship- 
builders' tools  used  by  this    firm,  the  gift  of  Mr.  Barker's  grand- 

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daughter.     Some  of  the  tools  were  used  by  her  great-grandfather  be- 
fore 1790  and  are  more  than  130  years  old. 

Elias  Jenks  (1781  - 1850)  from  Pawtucket,  R.  I.  and  Randall 
Hoyt  (1793  - 1852)  from  Amesbury,  Mass.,  built  vessels  in  South 
Salem  near  the  old  shipyard  of  Enos  Briggs,  remaining  there  until 
1843.  This  firm  built  the  first  Sumatra,  the  Borneo  and  the  first 
Sooloo. 

In  1825,  at  Orne's  Point  in  North  Salem,  William  Cottle  built  the 
schooner  Missionary  Packet  for  the  American  Board  of  Foreign  Mis- 
sions. The  vessel  was  taken  out  to  Honolulu  from  Boston  the  follow- 
ing year  by  Captain  James  Hunnewell  of  Charlestown,  Mass.,  whose 
memoir  published  privately  by  his  son  describes  the  perils  of  the 
voyage.  The  schooner  was  but  40  tons  displacement,  49  feet  long  and 
13  feet  wide  and  while  very  well  adapted  for  service  among  the  islands, 
her  voyage  out  to  Honolulu  was  indeed  a  dangerous  undertaking. 

Justin  Carter  with  a  residence  in  Andover,  Mass.,  built  the  bark 
Witch  on  Phillips'  wharf  in  1854  and,  in  1855,  he  built  the  Europa 
referred  to  elsewhere,  a  ship  of  846  tons,  the  largest  merchant  vessel 
ever  built  in  Salem. 

Benjamin  Hawkes,  so  Bentley  states,  was  located  near  Derby 
wharf  in  1818.  He  built  the  brig  Leander  in  1821  besides  other 
vessels. 

Samuel  Lewis  built  the  bark  Argentine,  298  tons,  for  Robert 
Upton  in  1849  and  the  bark  M.  Shepard  for  Captain  John  Bert- 
ram in  1850.  His  ship-yard  was  in  South  Salem,  now  part  of  the 
Naumkeag  Cotton  Mills  property. 

Edward  Frederick  Miller  was  born  at  Dartmouth,  N.  S.,  in  1821 
and  died  at  Auburndale,  Newton,  Mass.,  in  1908.  He  was  the  son 
of  Tobias  Miller  and  the  grandson  of  Tobias  Miller,  an  English 
army  officer,  who  received  a  grant  of  land  in  Dartmouth  in  1790. 
Edward  F.  Miller  was  apprenticed  to  a  ship-builder  by  the  name  of 
Lyle  at  Hahfax,  N.  S.,  when  fourteen  years  of  age.  At  twenty  he 
went  to  sea  on  a  Liverpool  ship  and  was  afterwards  on  a  vessel  which 
took  the  first  railroad  iron  from  Cardiff,  Wales,  to  Cuba.     It  was  at 


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time  when  pirates  infested  the  region  of  the  Isle  of  Pines  and  in  defend- 
ing the  ship  against  an  attack  railroad  spikes  were  fired  from  the 
ship's  cannon  at  a  piratical  vessel.  About  1840  he  was  shipwrecked 
off  Plymouth,  Mass.,  and  getting  ashore  made  his  way  to  Boston  by 
stage-coach.  Here  he  worked  for  Donald  McKay  on  many  of  the 
famous  clipper  ships  and  also  had  a  sub-contract  in  repairing  the 
frigate  Constitution  at  the  Navy  Yard.  In  1848  he  went  to  California 
doing  some  ship  repairing  at  Panama  on  the  way.  From  this  venture 
he  brought  back  gold  enough  to  furnish  capital  to  begin  ship-building 
in  a  small  way  at  Marblehead.  He  soon,  however,  established  himself 
on  the  site  of  Enos  Briggs'  old  ship-yard  in  South  Salem  where  he 
built  vessels  for  Captain  John  Bertram,  Robert  Brookhouse,  Pickman, 
Silsbee  &  Stone,  and  others  and  through  Capt.  Bertram  for  New 
York  owners.  His  ships  were  mostly  used  in  the  South  American, 
African  and  East  India  trades.  The  bark  La  Plata  held  the  sailing 
record  for  the  river  La  Plata  and  the  Taria  Topan  of  631  tons,  launched 
in  1870,  was  the  last  large  vessel  he  built.  Mr.  Miller  closed  his 
business  in  Salem  in  1878  and  moved  to  Newton,  Mass.  At  eighty 
years  of  age  he  became  interested  in  the  publishing  business  and  was 
one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  F.  W.  Dodge  Co.  of  New  York,  pub- 
lishers of  architectural  and  building-trades  periodicals.  [Letter  from 
his  son,  F.  T.  Miller  of  New  York  City,  1920.] 

Joshua  Brown  was  bom  at  Greenland,  N.  H.,  November  12,  1828 
and  died  April  8,  1901.  He  came  to  Salem  in  1865  and  began  ship- 
building in  the  firm  of  Turner,  Lewis  &  Brown,  afterwards  Lewis 
&  Brown  and  Turner  &  Brown.  Later,  he  bought  out  the  Salem 
Marine  Railway  in  South  Salem,  where  he  built  vessels  for  several 
years  and  until  he  sold  his  yard  to  the  Naumkeag  mills  and  removed 
from  Salem.  Among  the  vessels  built  by  Mr.  Brown  were  the  schooners 
Letitia,  Prairie  Flower,  and  clipper  fishermen;  he  built  the  Harry 
Bluff,  Alice,  Lizzie  A.  Robey  and  Charles  W.  Parker.  The  schooner 
Alice  was  the  fastest  of  the  fleet  and  was  sold  to  a  firm  of  pilots  in  the 
West  Indies  after  making  a  remarkable  run  while  deeply  laden  and 
had  outsailed  the  fastest  pilot  boat  approaching  Antigua.     The  bark 

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Albert  was  the  last  square-rigger  built  by  Mr.  Brown  and  afterwards 
he  confined  his  work  solely  to  building  yachts  among  which  were  the 
Clitheroe,  Idler,  Sunshine,  Tioga,  Crest  and  Betty.  Besides  ship- 
building Mr.  Brown  engaged  in  a  coastwise  trade  making  voyages  to 
the  West  Indies.  During  the  height  of  the  seal  fishery  he  sent  out  the 
schooner  Henry  Dennis  around  Cape  Horn  to  Fort  Townsend,  Wash- 
ington, where  for  two  years  successful  catches  were  made.  [Letter 
from  his  son,  Harry  H.  Brown  of  Boston,  1920.] 

Andrew  J.  Frisbee  was  bom  at  Northeast  Harbor,  Maine,  April 
26,  1829  and  died  in  Salem,  May  29,  1905.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  he 
was  "bound  out"  to  Thaddeus  Somes  of  Somesville,  Maine,  and 
worked  in  his  ship-yard  until  he  was  nearly  twenty-one  years  old 
when  he  went  to  Essex,  Mass.,  and  worked  in  ship-yards  there  until 
1859  when  he  went  to  Gloucester  where  he  built  a  number  of  fishing 
vessels  on  his  own  account.  In  1851  he  came  to  Salem  and  established 
himself  in  business  in  a  ship-yard  on  East  Gardner  St.,  adjoining  the 
yard  of  Joshua  Brown,  in  the  region  of  the  old  ship-yards  of  Enos 
and  Elijah  Briggs,  now  included  in  the  property  of  the  Naumkeag 
Steam  Cotton  Company.  There  he  built  the  three-masted  schooners 
James  B.  Eaton  of  203  tons,  launched  in  April,  1872,  and  the  /.  S. 
Lamprey  of  306  tons  launched  in  October  of  the  same  year.  The 
latter  was  the  last  vessel  of  so  large  a  size  built  in  Salem.  In  1873, 
Mr.  Frisbee  removed  to  Hunt's  wharf  at  the  foot  of  White  St.,  off 
lower  Derby  St.,  where  he  built  yachts  and  did  repairing  on  vessels 
until  he  retired  from  business  in  1903.  A  number  of  hull  models 
of  vessels  he  had  built  were  unfortunately  lost  with  Mr.  Henry  W. 
Morse's  collection  of  ship  souvenirs  in  the  burning  of  the  Winne-egan 
hotel  on  Baker's  Island,  April  25,  1906.  [Letter  from  his  son  Frank  H. 
Frisbee,  1920]. 

Among  other  ship-builders  of  Salem  were:  —  Samuel  Leach,  1769  - 
1846;  Thomas  Teague,  1769-1822;  Thomas  Webb,  1776-1815; 
William  Hulin,  1779-1815;  William  Rowell,  1780-1823;  John 
Beadle,  1782 . 


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Essex 

Vessels  have  been  built  at  the  town  of  Essex,  earlier  known  as 
Chebacco  Parish,  from  the  time  of  its  settlement  and  a  type  of  boat 
with  a  sharp  stern  and  without  a  bowsprit  which  originated  there 
was  known  all  along  the  coast  as  the  "  Chebacco  boat "  ("Jebacco"  as 
Bentley  writes  it),  but  they  are  no  longer  built. 

The  Marine  Room  collection  contains  a  large  number  of  builder's 
half-hull  models  from  the  ship-yards  of  Essex  where  so  many  of  the 
schooners  have  been  built  for  the  Gloucester  fisheries.  The  Essex 
schooners  are  famed  for  their  good  qualities  and  have  gone  to  all  parts 
of  the  world.  Among  the  more  noted  vessels  built  at  Essex  were,  — 
the  Advance  of  Dr.  Kane's  arctic  expedition,  in  which  he  sailed  from 
New  York  in  May,  1853,  a  vessel  of  144  tons  built  by  John  and  Leonard 
McKenzie;  the  ship  Ann  Maria,  built  for  David  Pingree  of  Salem, 
498  tons;  the  fishing  schooner  Benjamin  F.  Phillips  that  won  the 
fisherman's  prize  in  the  race  of  1901  and  the  Esperanto  of  1920;  the 
whaling  brig  Viola,  built  by  Tarr  &  James  in  1910,  a  most  successful 
vessel  with  great  luck  in  gathering  ambergris,  but  which  disappeared 
and  has  never  been  heard  from  since  leaving  port  in  1918.  The  largest 
vessel  built  at  Essex  was  the  steamer  Vidette  of  819  tons,  from  the 
yard  of  John  James  &  Co.  in  1880.  In  a  single  year,  Andrew  Story 
built  thirteen  vessels;   Adam  Boyd  built  in  all  200  vessels  the  largest 

number  recorded  by  one  builder;  sixty  vessels  were  built  at  Essex  in 
the  year  1852.  The  Essex  builders  represented  in  the  museum  collec- 
tion are,  —  J.  Horace  Burnham,  Jeremiah  Burnham,  David  and 
Willard  R.  Burnham,  Oliver  Burnham,  J.  G.  James  (Tarr  &  James), 

Arthur  D.  Story,  Albert  Story,  Horatio  N.  Andrews  and  Archer  B. 
Poland,  designer. 

On  The  Merrimac 

Many  of  the  older  Salem  ships  were  built  at  Newbury,  New- 
bury port,  Amesbury  and  Haverhill.  A  full  account  of  ship-building 
on  the  Merrimac  will  be  found  in  John  J.  Currier's  valuable  paper 

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published  in  1877.  The  Alliance  of  1778  in  which  Gen.  Lafayette  was 
taken  to  France  was  built  at  Salisbury  Point;  this  vessel  mounted 
thirty-two  guns  and  was  a  favorite  in  the  new  American  Navy.  In 
1798  the  U.  S.  S.  Merrimac,  commanded  by  Capt.  Moses  Brown,  was 
built  at  Newburyport.  The  largest  vessels  from  Essex  County  yards 
have  all  been  built  at  Newburyport;  the  Atlantic  packet-ship  Dread- 
nought was  built  there  by  Currier  &  Townsend  in  1853.  [See 
Bradlee  in  E.  I.  Hist.  Coll.,  vol.  LVI,  p.  1.]  The  largest  merchant 
sailing  ship  built  there  was  the  Daniel  I.  Tenney  of  1687  tons  in  1875; 
the  steamships  Ontario,  in  1866,  and  the  Erie  in  1867,  each  of  3,000 
tons,  were  built  at  Newburyport  by  George  W.  Jackson,  Jr. 


Gloucester 

At  Gloucester  many  vessels  have  been  built  for  Gloucester  firms 
and  to  go  elsewhere.  Here,  in  1713,  Captain  Andrew  Robinson  "gave 
a  new  name  to  our  marine  vocabulary  and  a  new  rig  to  the  commerce 
of  the  world."  He  evolved  the  schooner  from  the  lateen-rigged  craft 
and  as  the  vessel  which  he  had  built  took  the  water,  a  by-stander 
shouted,  —  "Oh,  how  she  schoons."  Robinson  instantly  responded, 
—  "A  schooner  let  her  be,"  and  schooners  ever  since  have  been  per- 
haps the  best  known  vessels  the  world  over.  A  good  account  of  the 
incident  with  an  illustration  of  the  development  of  the  schooner  will 
be  found  in  Babson's  History  of  Gloucester,  1860.  page  251. 


ROW^LEY 

At  Rowley  vessels  were  built  on  farms  and  by  the  roadsides  and 
hauled  to  the  water  by  oxen,  the  largest  venture  of  this  sort  was  a 
vessel  of  ninety  tons  built  on  Rowley  common  many  years  since  by 
Nathaniel  Perley;  it  was  named  Country's  Wonder  and  was  hauled  a 
mile  and  a  half  to  the  water  by  one  hundred  oxen. 

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Lynn 

Schooners  and  small  craft  have  been  built  at  various  times  on  the 
Saugus  river  but  no  large  vessels.  For  a  few  years  prior  to  1838 
whaling  was  conducted  from  Lynn,  five  vessels  being  employed,  none 
of  which,  however,  were  built  there;  a  number  of  vessels  have  been 
owned  in  Lynn. 

Dan  VERS 

Ira  Story  built  vessels  at  Danversport  from  1816- 1865;  several 
of  his  half  hull  models  are  included  in  the  Marine  Room  collection. 

Marblehead 

Marblehead,  while  formerly  producing  fishing  vessels  and  even 
brigs  and  ships  —  Mr.  Lindsey  says  that  nine  ships  were  built  at 
Marblehead  between  the  years  1849  and  1855  — has  become 
more  famous,  however,  for  the  yachts  and  sea-planes  of  recent  times. 
Marblehead 's  fame  does  not  rest  with  ships  and  ship-building  but 
with  the  ship-masters  and  sailors  whose  skill  and  daring  have  been 
recorded  in  every  American  history.  [See  Benjamin  J.  Lindsey's 
Old  Marblehead  Sea  Captains.] 


Medford,  Chelsea  and  Boston 

From  the  ship-yards  of  Medford,  Mass.,  have  come  many  Salem 
ships.  Thatcher  Magoun  (1775-1856),  who  built  the  Henry  Tuke, 
Brookline  and  other  Salem  vessels,  was  born  in  Pembroke,  Mass.,  from 
whence  so  many  ship-builders  have  come.  After  serving  five  years 
with  Enos  Briggs  in  Salem,  he  started  business  for  himself  in  Medford 
where  he  built  in  all  eighty  vessels. 

At  Medford,  too,  Sprague  and  James  built  the  ship  London,  368 
tons,  in  1827;  the  ship  Paris,  360  tons,  in  1828,  and  the  steamer  East 
Boston,  269  tons,  in  1841,  for  David  Augustus  Neal  of  Salem. 

144 


DESK    USED    BY    DR.    NATHANIEL    BOWDITCH 
At  which  he  translated  La  Place's  Mechanique  Celeste. 


The  Ocean  Express  was  the  largest  ship  built  at  Medford,  2000 
tons,  in  1854,  and  John  Foster  built  the  last  ship  in  Medford  in  1873. 
[See  Brooks,  History  of  Medford,  p.  357;  also,  Ship-building  at 
Medford  in  the  Medford  Historical  Register,  vol.  I,  p.  66.] 

By  far  the  greatest  number  of  large  Salem-owned  ships  in  the 
last  half  of  the  nineteenth  century  were  built  by  John  Taylor  and  his 
son  Justin  Taylor.  John  Taylor  was  born  in  Scituate,  Mass.,  Oc- 
tober 13, 1807,  and  died  in  Chelsea,  September  20,  1877.  He  was  the 
youngest  of  six  children  all  of  whom  lived  to  an  old  age.  In  the  cus- 
tom of  the  times  as  he  approached  manhood  he  was  apprenticed  and 
served  his  time  with  Galen  James,  ship-builder  at  Medford  and,  in 
1831,  married  Mr.  James'  sister,  Eliza  James,  and  to  them  were  born 
three  sons  and  three  daughters.  John  Taylor  became  a  prominent 
ship-builder  of  Medford,  his  yard  on  the  bank  of  the  Mystic  river  was 
not  far  from  the  old  Craddock  house.  Here  he  built  about  twenty-five 
vessels  which  were  launched  broadside  to  the  river  there  not  being 
width  enough  to  launch  them  in  the  ordinary  manner.  As  tonnage  in- 
creased it  became  necessary  to  have  more  room  for  launching  so  in 
1850  he  removed  to  Chelsea,  Mass.,  where  he  was  the  first  builder  of 
note  to  establish  a  ship-yard.  Afterwards  he  removed  to  a  ship-yard 
in  East  Boston.  In  Chelsea  and  Boston  he  built  about  fifty  vessels 
and  his  son,  Justin  Taylor,  who  became  associated  with  him  continued 
the  business  alone  after  his  father's  retirement. 

They  built  many  ships  for  Stone,  Silsbee  &  Pickman  and  Pick- 
man,  Silsbee  &  Allen  of  Salem,  for  use  in  the  Philippine  Island  trade, 
named  for  the  islands  of  the  group,  —  Mindoro,  Panay,  Sooloo  and 
for  FoiTnosa.  [See  models  and  pictures  of  these  vessels  in  the  museum 
collection.]  Among  other  vessels  built  by  the  firm  were  the  Witch- 
craft, Syren,  Aurora,  Malay,  Derby,  all  of  Salem,  and  the  Garnet, 
Pericles,  Autocrat,  Ellen  Munro,  Iceberg  and  George  Washington. 

John  Taylor  was  a  member  of  the  first  Board  of  Aldermen  when 
Chelsea  became  a  city  and  he  served  a  term  in  the  Massachusetts 
House  of  Representatives  but  declined  further  political  honors.  He 
was  a  prominent  member  and  a  deacon  of   the  First  Congregational 

145 


Church  of  Chelsea,  a  genial  man  of  soUd  worth.     [Letter  from  his 
grand-daughter,  Mrs.  Mary  M.  (Taylor)  Perkins,  1920.] 

COHASSET 

For  a  century  after  the  American  Revolution  vessels  were  built 
on  the  "South  Shore,"  particularly  at  Cohasset,  for  Salem  owners  or 
came  into  their  possession  thru  purchase  as  will  be  seen  by  reference 
to  these  lists  or  to  Mr.  Collier's  Deep  Sea  Captains  of  Cohasset. 
In  addition  to  those  of  which  the  museum  has  paintings  or  models  is 
the  brig  Charles  Doggett,  1826,  100  tons,  famous  as  the  vessel  on  which 
Captain  William  Driver,  after  many  adventures,  conveyed  the  colony 
of  Pitcairn  islanders  back  to  their  home  from  Tahiti,  and  as  the  vessel 
also  on  which  Captain  Driver  christened  the  American  flag  as  "Old 
Glory."  The  brig  Eliza  Burgess,  1838,  167  tons  and  the  bark  Lewis, 
1848,  217  tons,  both  of  Salem,  were  also  built  at  Cohasset.  [See  Os- 
good and  Batchelder,  Sketch  of  Salem,  p.  171.] 


MICHELE   FELICE   CORNE 
From  a  painting  in  the  Redwcx)d  Library.  Newport,  R.  I. 


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PAINTERS    OF    THE    SHIP    PICTURES 

Whether  originals  or  copies  and  for  other  information,  see  Hsts 
of  vessels. 

Aylward,  W.  J..  New  York. 

Dry  Dock  Dewey  en  route  for  Manila,  1904. 

Bartoll,  Samuel,  Salem. 

Colors  of  Essex  Guards,  1814;    fire-boards   and  addition  to 
doorway  painting  of  E.  I.  M.  Hall,  1825. 

Bateman,  Charles  E.,  Newburyport,  Mass. 
Empress  of  the  Seas,  1853. 

Brown,  Harry,  Portland,  Maine. 
H.  B.  M.  Monarch,  1870. 

Brown,  Porter,  Salem. 

Derby  Wharf,  Salem,  1877. 

Carlotta,  a..  Port  Mahon,  Minorca. 
U.  S.  S.  Ontario,  1822. 

Carmiletti,  E.,  Smyrna. 
Brig  Leander,  1831. 

Carmillieri,  Nicolai,    Marseilles.     [Sometimes  signed  Nicolay.] 
Alfred,  Experiment,  Monk,  1807. 

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Cleveland,  Willl\m,  Salem,  (1777-1842). 
Brigantine  and  Sloop,  1790. 

CoRNE,  MiCHELE  Felice,  Naples,  Salem,  Newport,  R.I.,  (1757  -  1845). 

Came  to  Salem  from  Naples  in  E.  H.  Derby's  ship  Mount 
Vernon,  1799;  painted  many  pictures  of  ships  and  during  the 
War  of  1812  painted  a  series  of  naval  battles,  which  were 
exhibited  in  Salem  and  Boston,  from  which  he  gained  a  com- 
petency and  removed  to  Newport,  R.  I.,  where  he  lived  until 
his  death  in  1845.  [See  Mason,  Reminiscences  of  Newport, 
1844,  p.  330.]  Many  of  Corne's  paintings  of  naval  engagements 
were  engraved  for  the  popular  naval  histories  of  the  War  of 
1812,  —  the  Naval  Monument,  Naval  Temple  and  Naval 
Battles. 

America,  Belisarius,  Volusia,  Ulysses  (1st),  Fanny,  Hazard, 
John,  Margaret,  Mount  Vernon;  Fire-boards,  —  Canton  Fac- 
tories, Cape  Town,  1799  - 1805. 

CoRZiNi,  Raffael,  Smyrna. 
Bark  Hamilton,  1849. 

Dannenberg,  F. 

Nancy,  1805. 

Drew,  Clement,  Boston. 

Carthage,  1844,  H.  H.  Cole,  Vintage. 

Eaton,  Willl\m  Bradley,  Salem,  (1836  - 1896). 
White  Swallow,  1844,  steam  tug  Naumkeag. 

Evans  and  Arnold,  New  Orleans. 
Shirley  and  Julius,  1850. 

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Gavazzone,  Domenico,  Genoa. 
Sooloo  (1st). 

Gore,  Charles,  London. 

Water-color  Sketches,  1787. 

GUEISSEPPI,    

China,  about  1820. 

Howard,  Joseph,  Salem. 

Frigate  Essex,  1799. 

Kappanf,  C,  Hamburg. 

Arabia,  about  1860. 

LuscoMB,  William  Henry,  Salem,  (1805- 1866). 

Born  at  Ballston,  N.  Y.,  January  19,  1805,  and  died  at 
Salem,  November  17,  1866;  the  Salem  directory  gives  his 
occupation  as  "a  sign  and  fancy  painter."  He  made  many 
oil  paintings  of  Salem  vessels  and  his  pencil  sketches  though 
small  were  excellent;  unfortunately,  however,  few  have  been 
preserved.  He  married,  in  1823,  Mary  Jane  Gilman,  who 
died  November  6,  1874,  aged  sixty-seven  years  and  six  months. 

Schooner  George,  Pamelia,  Rolla,  about  1845  -  1855. 

Luz . . . . ,  John,  Venice. 

A^^m;  England,  1850. 

McFarlane,  D. 

Nashville  and  Harvey  Birch,  1864. 

149 


Macpherson,  Murdock,  Canada,  Salem,  (1841  - 1915). 

Born  at  Fort  Simpson,  Rupert  Land  on  the  Mackenzie  river, 
his  father  being  a  factor  in  the  Hudson  Bay  Company,  his 
mother  a  daughter  of  Edward  Smith  also  of  the  company. 
From  there  while  a  child  he  was  taken  the  long  and  difficult 
journey  to  friends  in  Nova  Scotia  and  educated,  first  at  Pictou 
Academy  and  afterwards  graduated  at  McGill  College,  Mon- 
treal. He  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  A.  C.  Macdonald  and, 
enlisting  in  the  Nova  Scotia  militia,  became  a  Lieutenant  and 
in  1866  Captain  in  the  first  Brigade  of  Pictou  artillery.  In  1873 
he  came  to  Salem  where  he  took  up  music  and  art  as  a  profes- 
sion and  gave  instruction  in  both  branches.  His  gift  for  copy- 
ing the  work  of  the  old  water-color  painters  was  remarkable; 
from  1902  to  1914  he  worked  at  the  Peabody  Museum  repro- 
ducing the  paintings  of  the  famous  Salem  ships  which  he  did 
with  great  accuracy  of  detail. 

America,  Belisarius,  Cambrian,  Carthage,  Sukey,  Ulysses, 
Volusia  and  many  others. 


Mallini,  Gustavo  Adolfo,  Portoferrajo,  Italy. 
Portoferrajo,  1817. 

Mazzinghi,  Peter,  Leghorn. 
Malay,  Kerens,  1833. 

Moxtardier, ,  Havre,  France. 

Erin,  1810. 

Mooy,  Jan. 

Clarissa,  1818. 

Morse,  F.  A. 

Frederick  Billings,  1885. 


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DELFT   BOWL 
10  inches  diameter.     Captured  by  a  Marblehead  privateer  during  the  Revolution. 


RELICS   OF  CAPT.   ADDISON    RICHARDSON 


Morse,  George  Frederick,  Portland,  Maine. 

Born  at  Portland,  Maine,  March  10,  1834,  lives  at  Portland, 
has  for  a  recreation  made  many  admirable  studies  in  oils, 
especially  winter  scenes  in  Maine  —  he  is  a  brother  of  Prof. 
Edward  S.  Morse  of  the  Peabody  Museum  of  Salem. 

Ship  Lombard,  U.  S.  S.  Corwin  and  other  vessels  in  Portland 
harbor,  1858. 


Norton,  Charles  W.,  Detroit. 
St.  Clair,  1875. 

Norton,  William  Edward,  Boston,  (1843- 1916). 
Schooners,  porgy  steamer. 

Parker,  William  P.,  Salem. 
Sloop  yacht  Aurora. 

Pellegrini,  Hre,  Marseilles.     [Sometimes  signed  Pellegrin.] 
Propontis,  Richard,  Rome,  Sooloo  (1st),  1831  - 1848. 

Petersen,  Jacob,  Copenhagen. 
Patriot,  1817. 

Phippen,  Jon.,  Salem. 

South  Carolina,  1790. 

PococK,  Nicholas,  London,  (1741  - 1821). 

A  marine  painter  of  considerable  merit,  he  was  also  a  ship- 
master and  commanded  the  ships  Lloyd  and  Minerva  belonging 
to  Richard  Champion,  a  London  merchant. 

Pencil  and  water-color  sketches,  1790  - 1815. 


15] 


PoLLi,  Felice,  Trieste. 
Amelia,  1830. 

Raleigh,  C.  S. 

Eliza  Adams,  about  1840. 

Ressmann,  Francisco,  Trieste. 
Margaret,  1809. 

Rogers,  Augustus  D.,  Salem,  (1820-1896). 
Grotius,  Tyhee,  1829. 

Ropes,  Capt.  Andrew  M.,  Salem,  (1830-1912). 
Raduga,  1863. 

Ropes,  George,  Salem,  (1788-1819). 

Son  of  Captain  George  Ropes  who  was  lost  at  sea  on  a  voyage 
from  the  Mediterranean  in  1807,  leaving  a  widow  and  nine 
children.  The  son  began  as  early  as  1802,  while  he  was  a  pupil 
of  Michele  Come,  to  paint  pictures  of  vessels  and  continued 
to  do  so  through  life.  During  the  War  of  1812  he  painted 
many  pictures  of  naval  vessels  and  naval  battle  scenes.  In  bus- 
iness he  was  a  carriage  and  sign-painter  and  although  deaf  and 
dumb  from  birth,  by  his  industry  he  was  the  chief  support  of 
his  widowed  mother  and  eight  brothers  and  sisters,  one  of  the 
latter  of  whom  was  afflicted  like  himself.  [See  Diar>'  of  William 
Bentley,  vol.  IV,  p.  573.] 

America,  Sukey,  Triumphant,  Fatne,  Constitution  and  Jaia, 
Glide,  Two  Brothers,  Essex  (capture).  Crowninshield's  Wharf, 
Naval  Battles  (2),  1802  - 1815. 

Roux,  Anton,  Marseilles,  (1765  - 1835). 

" Joseph- Ange-Antoine  Roux  was  born  in  Marseilles  in  1765 
and  died  there  in  1835.     He  was  established  as  a  hydrographer 

152 


"GRAND    TURK"   PUNCH   BOWL 
16  inches  diameter.     Chinese  Loestclt  ware  made  at  Canton,  1786,  lor  Elias  Hasket  Derby. 


on  one  of  the  quays  at  Marseilles.  He  greatly  admired  the 
Provencal  artist  Joseph  Vernet,  whose  works  he  copied.  His 
ship  paintings  are  noted  for  their  accuracy  of  detail." 

America,  Cadmus,  Emiice  (repairing),  Francis,  Naiad,  brig, 
Grand  Turk,  Ulysses  (2d),  yacht  Louisa,  Topaz,  Mediterranean 
sketches.  Frigate  in  a  gale,  1802  -  1823. 

Roux,  Anton,  fils  aine,  Marseilles,  (1799- 1872). 

Son  of  Anton  Roux,  —  "continued  the  double  profession  of 
his  father  but  his  work  as  an  artist  was  inferior." 
Cygnet,  Glide,  Reaper,  1823  -  1824. 

Roux,  Frederic,  Marseilles,  Havre,  Paris,  (1805  - 1870). 

Son  of  Anton  Roux,  —  "entered  the  studio  of  Horace  Vernet, 
where  he  gained  a  flexibility  of  vision  and  boldness  of  touch 
which  were  lacking  in  his  brother  Anton's  work," 

Cambrian,  Charlemagne,  (3)  1826  - 1838. 

Roux,  Francois,  Marseilles,  (1811  - 1882). 

Son  of  Anton  Roux,  —  "obtained  the  title  of  painter  to  the 
Ministry  of  Marine  and  distinguished  himself  in  his  genre 
pictures.  Among  his  works  are  the  American  ships  Sir  John 
Franklin,  Racehorse,  and  Bazaar."  [Letter  of  M.  Ferdinand 
Servian,  Critique  d'art,  member  of  the  Academic  des  Sciences, 
Lettres  et  Beaux  Arts,  Marseilles,  Feb.  1917,  regarding  the 
Roux  family.] 

Olinda,   1827. 

Russell,  Benjamin,  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  (1804  - 1885). 
Minnesota,  about  1860. 

Russell,  Edward  J.,  Boston,  (1835  - 1906). 

Of  English  birth,  lived  in  Boston  and  did  excellent  work  as  a 
copyist. 

Chesapeake  and  Shannon,  Frigate  in  a  Gale. 

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Salmon,  Robert,  Liverpool,  Boston. 

He  came  to  Boston  in  1828  and  painted  industriously  until 
his  death,  not  only  marine  but  other  subjects.  His  views  of 
Boston  harbor  and  the  shipping  are  highly  prized,  and  although 
he  painted  rapidly  his  work  was  accurate  and  painstaking. 
An  annotated  list  was  left  by  Robert  Salmon  with  the  record 
of  his  paintings  and  sales,  kept  in  his  own  phonetic  manner 
and  covering  the  period  from  1828  to  1840,  a  copy  of  which 
is  in  possession  of  the  Boston  Public  Library  and  a  type-written 
copy  at  the  Peabody  Museum  of  Salem. 

Ships  Liverpool  United  States;  Lugger  and  Cutter,  Liverpool 
from  Cheshire  [The  Mersey  with  ship  coming  out]. 

Smith,  W.  H. 

Wreck  of  H.  B.  M.  Anson  [on  paper  water-marked  1825]. 

Smith,  W.  H. 

Metis,  1868. 


Smith, 


Golden  West,  1857. 


Stone,  Edmund,  Beverly,  Mass.    • 

A  sailor  on  the  ship  George  of  which  he  painted  many  pictures. 
George,  (5)  about  1820. 

Stubbs,  W.  p.,  Boston. 

Glide,  Mindoro,  Taria  Topan,  1881. 

SUNQUA,  Lintin,  China. 

Cynthia,  1838.  Montauk,  1844;   also.  Chinese  river  views. 

T.  P. 

Hercules  in  a  gale,  1835. 

154 


STAFFORDSHIRE   PUNCH    BOWLS 

13  inches  diameter.     Made  for  the  Salem  East  India  Marine  Society.     Showing  the  engagement  between 
the  U.S.  frigate  "Constellation"  and  the  French  frigate  " Insurs,enle."  1799. 


CHINESE   LOESTOFT   TUREENS 

22  inches  long.     Presented  to  the  Salem  East  India  Marine  Society  in  1803  and  used  at  the  annual  banquets. 


ToRREY,  Charles,  Brookline,  Mass. 

Mindoro,  1917,  Sooloo  (2d),  Fanny,  Camel,  Packet,  schooner 
Fame,  Tidal  Wave,  New  Hazard,  1919  -  1920. 

Turner,  Ross  Sterling,  Salem.  (1848- 1915). 

Chesapeake  and  Shannon  1890;  John  Bertram,  Friendship, 
Prudent,  bark  Eliza,  Baltick,  1893.  after  originals;  sketch,  16th 
century  ship. 

ViTTALUGA,  Antoine,  Genoa. 

Cleopatra's  Barge  (2).  1817. 

Wales,  George  C.,  Boston. 

Susan  Drew,  etching,  1918. 

Ward,  William,  Salem. 

Friendship,  Recovery,  1799. 

West,  Benjamin  Franklin,  Salem,  (1818- 1854). 

Son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Moseley)  West,  was  born  in 
Salem,  June  15,  1818  and  died  April  11,  1854.  The  Salem 
directory  describes  him  as  "painter,  125  Essex  St."  He  worked 
in  oil  colors  and  his  paintings  of  ships  although  somewhat  stiff 
are  accurate  in  details.  Thru  his  work  we  fortunately  have 
pictures  of  many  Salem  vessels  portraits  of  which  otherwise 
would  not  have  been  preserved.  He  never  received  instruction 
in  painting  which  was  a  natural  gift. 

Chalcedony,   1825,   Margaret,   about   1835,   Navigator,    1841, 
and  others. 

Weytz,  p.,  Antwerp. 

Natchez,  Robert  Pulsford,  1840  -  1844. 

White,  George  Merwanjee,  Salem,  (1849  - 1915). 
Emerald. 


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PAINTERS    OF    THE    PORTRAITS 

Alexander,  Franxis,  Boston,  Florence,  Italy,  (1800  -  1881). 
Nathan  Neal,  about  1840. 

Benson,  Frank  W.,  Salem,  (1862 ). 

Prof.  Edward  S.  Morse,  1913;  John  Robinson,  1917;  John  F. 
Brooks,  1918. 

Caliga,  Isaac  H.,  Salem,  (1857 ). 

John  H.  Sears,  1908. 

Campbell,  Georgine. 

John  W.  Rogers,  1916. 

Corne,  Michele   Felice.      [See  Painters  of  The  Ship  Pictures.] 
Capt.  James  Cook,  circumnavigator,  1804. 

Dexter,  Henry,  Cambridge,  (1806-1876). 
Marble  bust  of  William  Gray. 

Frothingham,  James,  Charlestown,  Salem,  (1786-  1864). 
E.  H.  Derby;  Rev.  William  Bentley,  about  1810. 

Furness,  R.  T. 

James  D.  Gillis,  after  F.  de  Braekeleer,  1909. 


VENICIAN   CHANDELIER 
One  ol  a  pa.r  presented  tc  the  Salem  East  Ind.a  Marine  Society  :n  1804  by  Capt.  Benjamm  Carpenter. 
The  timbering  of  1824  shews  in  the  picture. 


Furze,  George,  Leghorn. 

Capt.  Haraden,  1807. 

Gulliver,  Mary. 

Capt.  Benj.  Crowninshield,  after  miniature,  1895. 

Hartwell,  Alonzo,  Boston,  (1805-1873). 

Nath.    Silsbee;    D.  L.    Pickman    after    Chester    Harding, 

(1792  - 1866). 

HiNKLEY,  Robert,  Washington.  D.  C,  (1853 ). 

Richard  S.  Rogers  after  photograph;    Jacob  Crowninshield 
after  miniature.  1880. 

HiRSHMANN,  Holland. 

Henry  Elkins,  1791. 

HORNEMAN,  Christian,  Copenhagen,  (1765-1844). 
John  Becket,  1811. 

Leslie,  Charles  Robert,  London,  England,  (1794  - 1859). 
Nathaniel  West,  about  1840. 

McIntire,  Samuel,  Salem,  (1757-1811). 

Distinguished  carver  and  architect.     [See  Cousins  and  Riley, 
The  Wood-Carver  of  Salem.] 

Yamqua,  1801;  figurehead,  about  1790;  carvings. 

Metzer,  J.,  Antwerp. 

Geo.  W.  Cleveland,  1835. 

MooNEY,  Edward  L.,  New  York,  (1813  - 1887). 
Ahmed  ben  Haman,  1840. 

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Osgood,  Charles,  Salem,  (1809- 1890). 

Nathaniel  Bowditch,  Joseph  Peabody,  Henry  F.  King,  Allen 
Putnam,  John  H.  Eagleston,  Charles  Hoffman  and  others. 

Pratt,  Henry  Cheever,  (1803-1880). 
Joseph  Pratt. 

QuiNBY,  Frederick,  Boston. 

Dr.  Charles  G.  Weld,  1915. 

St.  Memin,  Charles  Balthazar  Julien  Fevret  de,   (1770  - 1852). 

Born  at  Dijon,  France,  he  was  for  political  reasons  exiled  to 
United  States,  1793  to  1814.  Here  he  applied  his  artistic  talents 
to  making  profile  portraits  by  means  of  a  physionotrace  which 
were  reduced  by  a  pantograph  and  engraved.  A  volume  con- 
taining reproductions  of  his  portraits  was  published  in  New 
York  in  1862. 

William  Cleveland,  about  1810. 

Schell,  a.  Bertram. 

George  Peabody  of  London,  1867. 

Schiller,  B.  C. 

John  B.  Fiske,  1846. 

Southward,  George,  Salem,  (1804  - 1876). 

Pickering  Dodge,  after  James  Frothingham,  1870. 

Stanley,  J.  M.,  Honolulu,  H.  T. 
Stephen  Reynolds,  1848. 

True,  Joseph,  Salem. 

He  worked  from  about  1816  to  1866,  furnishing  the  carved 
Capitols  for  columns  of  many  doorways  besides  figureheads 
and  other  ship  carvings. 

Chinese  figure,  1838. 

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•HEAVEN   AND    THE   DAY   OF   JUDGMENT" 


In  1806,  Gen.  Elias  Hasket  Derby,  son  of  the  Salem  merchant  of 
the  same  name,  gave  the  East  India  Marine  Museum  the  carving 
known  as  "Heaven  and  the  Day  of  Judgment"  and  more  famiharly 
as  "Heaven  and  Hell,"  which  the  two  sections  of  the  globe  respectively 


represent.  This  is  undoubtedly  the  most  widely  known  single  object 
in  the  museum  and  for  one  hundred  years  the  only  object  of  this  sort 
in  any  museum  in  the  country;  it  has  always  been  kept  with  the  relics 
of  the  E.  I.  M.  Society.  These  carvings  were  made  in  Flanders  during 
the  fifteenth  or  early  sixteenth  centuries  and  were  intended  for  the 
terminal  beads  of  rosaries  for  the  wealthy  Roman  Catholic  nobility. 
This  one  is  an  admirable  example  of  these  wonderful  box-wood  carv- 
ings. While  it  is  but  two  inches  in  diameter,  109  full-length  figures 
and  heads  are  crowded  into  the  two  sections  of  the  ball.  The  museum 
is  indebted  to  Mr.  J.  P.  Morgan  of  New  York  for  a  copy  of  the  great 
illustrated  "Catalogue  of  Jewels  and  Works  of  Art"  in  the  Morgan 
collection,  prepared  for  Mr.  J.  P.  Morgan,  Senior,  in  1910,  in  which 
among  other  objects  of  art  similar  carvings  are  illustrated  and 
described. 


BOATS  AND   MODELS   IN  THE  ETHNOLOGICAL 
COLLECTIONS 

[Compiled  by  Lawrence  W.  Jenkins] 

The  following  list  of  boats  and  boat  models  includes  all  native 
craft  in  the  Ethnological  collections  of  the  Peabody  Museum.  Many 
of  them  came  originally  from  the  collections  of  the  East  India  Marine 
Society  and  thru  the  Essex  Institute,  The  dates  given  in  parentheses 
are  the  earliest  known  in  connection  with  the  object,  —  either  the  date 
when  collected  or  when  presented,  —  although  in  many  cases  the 
specimens  are  older.  No  dates  after  1900  are  given.  The  figures  are 
the  lengths  in  feet  and  inches. 


Africa. 


Trading  boat,  rigged  model,  9'  11",  from  East  Coast.    (1849) 
Trading  boat,  model,  6',  from  East  Coast-     (1849) 
Trading  boat,  rigged  model,  2'  8",  from  West  Coast.     (1855) 
Dugout,  model,  3'  9",  from  Cape  Palmas,  West  Coast. 
Dugout,  model,  2'  9",  from  Cape  Palmas,  West  Coast.    (1851) 
Dugout,  model,  2',  from  Liberia. 
Dugout,  model,  5'  11",  from  Upper  Congo  River. 
Dugout,  model,  2'  9",  from  Matabeleland. 


America,  North. 


One  man  kaiak,  18'  6",  Eskimo. 
One  man  kaiak,  18'  5",  Eskimo  of  Hudson's  Bay. 
One  man  kaiak,  model,  1'  6",  Eskimo  of  Point  Barrow. 
One  man  kaiak,  model,  2'  10",  Eskimo  of  Baffin  Land. 


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One  man  kaiak,  model,  2'  1",  Eskimo  of  Nelson  Island. 

One  man  kaiak,  model,  1'  7",  Eskimo  of  Aleutian  Islands. 
(1800) 

Two  men  kaiak,  model,  2'  7",  Eskimo  of  Aleutian  Islands. 

Two  men  kaiak,  model,  3'  2",  Eskimo  of  Aleutian  Islands. 
(1802) 

Two  men  kaiak,  model,  2'  3",  Eskimo  of  Kodiak  Island. 
(1829j 

Three  men  kaiak,  model,  2'  3",    Eskimo   of  Kodiak  Island. 

Three  men  kaiak,  model,  3',  Eskimo  of  Kodiak  Island.     (1812) 

One  man  kaiak,  model,  2'  7",  Eskimo  of  Labrador. 

One  man  kaiak.  model,  9",  Eskimo  of  Labrador. 

Bark  canoe,  18',  Penobscot  Indians,  Maine.     (1826) 

Bark  canoe,  model,  7'  11",  Penobscot  Indians,  Maine. 
(1873) 

Bark  canoe,  model,  2'  2",  Penobscot  Indians,  Maine.  [Xtxj 
old) 

Bark  canoe,  model,  2',  Micmac  Indians,  Nova  Scotia.     (1803) 

Bark  canoe,  model,  2'  9",  Micmac  Indians,  Nova  Scotia. 
(1803j 

Bark  canoe,  model,  3'  3",  Micmac  Indians,  New  Brunswick. 
(1803) 

Bark  canoe,  model,  1'  6",  Micmac  Indians,  New  Brunswick. 
(1840.) 

Bark  canoe,  model,  1'  9",  Micmac  Indians,  New  Brunswick. 
(1893) 

Bark  canoe,  model,  3',  Ojibwa  Indians,  Lake  Superior. 
(1825) 

Bark  canoe,  model,  V  10",  Ojibwa  Indians.  Lake  Huron. 
(1825) 

Bark  canoe,  model,  4',  Ojibwa  Indians.  (1850)  Made  and 
presented  by  Mangardus,  an  Ojibwa  Indian. 

Bark  canoe,  model,  1'  1",  Ojibwa  Indians,  Minnesota. 
(1880) 

Dugout,  21'  9",  Seminole  Indians,  Florida. 


f6o 


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FISHING   RAFT 
Model  cf  a  Formosa  bambu  fishins  raft  before  187 


TRADING    JUNK 
Working  model  of  a  Japanese  junk-builder  about  1800. 


Bark  canoe,  model,  2'  9",  Athapascan  Indians,  Upper  Yukon, 
Alaska. 

Bark  canoe,  model,  1'  8",  Athapascan  Indians,  Upper  Yukon, 
Alaska. 

Rush  raft,  '*Balsa,"  10' 9",  Pomo  Indians,  Upper  Lake, 
California.     (1898) 

Rush  raft,  "Balsa,"  model,  3'  9",  Pomo  Indians,  Upper  Lake, 
California. 

Rush  raft,  "Balsa,"  model,  2'  9",  Pomo  Indians,  Upper  Lake, 
California. 

Rush  raft,  "Balsa,"  model,  2' 5",  Pomo  Indians,  Upper 
Lake,  California. 

Dugout,  model,  2',  Chinook  Indians,  Columbia  River,  Wash- 
ington.    (1825) 

Dugout,  model,  1'  9",  Makah  Indians,  Washington.     (1889) 

Dugout,  model,  3'  5",  Tsimshian  Indians,  British  Columbia. 
Old  style  war  canoe. 

Dugout,  model,  3' 6",  Nootka  Indians,  Vancouver  Island. 
(1860) 

Dugout,  model,  2',  Nootka  Indians,  Vancouver  Island. 

Dugout,  model,  2' 5",  Haida  Indians,  North  West  Coast. 
(1860) 

Dugout,  model,  2'  3",  Haida  or  Tlingit  Indians,  North  West 
Coast. 

Dugout,  model,  2' 9",  Tlingit  Indians,  North  West  Coast. 
(1883) 

America,  South. 

Dugout,  model,  1'  1",  from  Surinam. 

Dugout,  model,  V  1" ,  from  Venezuela. 

Catamaran,  rigged  model,  1'5",  from  Rio  Grande,  Brazil. 

(1856) 

Catamaran,  rigged  model,  2'  11",  from  Rio  Amazon,  Brazil. 

(1834) 

Catamaran,  rigged  model,  1'  2",  from  Rio  Amazon,  Brazil. 
(1864) 

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Catamaran,  rigged  model,  1'  5",  from  Rio  Amazon,  Brazil. 

Catamaran,  model,  1'  2",  from  Rio  Amazon,  Brazil. 

Catamaran,  model,  1'  4",  from  Rio  Para.  Brazil.     (1854) 

Rush  raft,  "Balsa."  model,  2'  3",  from  Lake  Titicaca.  Bolivia. 
(1894) 

Rush  raft,  "Balsa,"  rigged  model,  2'  3",  from  Lake  Titicaca, 
Bolivia.     (1849) 

Rush  raft,  "Balsa,"  model,  3'  5",  from  Lake  Titicaca,  Bolivia. 

Rush  raft,  "Balsa,"  model,  2',  from  Lake  Titicaca,  Bolivia. 

Bark  canoe,  model,  4'  5",  Yahgan  Indians,  Tierra  del  Fuego. 

Bark  canoe,  model,  2'  2",  Yahgan  Indians.  Tierra  del  Fuego. 

Bark  canoe,  model.  1'  11",  Yahgan  Indians,  Tierra  del  Fuego. 

Ceylon. 

Outrigger  canoe,  rigged  model,  2'  6",  from  Point  de  Galle. 
(1860) 

Outrigger  canoe,  rigged  model,  3'  6",  from  Point  de  Galle. 
(1894) 

Outrigger  canoe,  rigged  model.  3'  6",  from  Point  de  Galle. 


China. 


Mandarin's  boat,  rigged  model.  2'  7".     (1845) 
Mandarin's  boat,  rigged  model,  2'  6".     (1883) 
Mandarin's  boat,  rigged  model,  2'  4".     (1883) 
Mandarin's  boat,  model,  3'  4".     (1864) 
River  boat,  model,  2'  5".     (1883) 
River  boat,  model,  2'  2".     (1883) 
River  boat,  model,  2'  \" .     (1885) 
River  boat,  model,  2'  7". 
Passage  boat,  model,  2'.     (1883)  . 
Trading  junk,  rigged  model,  2'  10". 
Trading  junk,  rigged  model,  2'  9".     (1842) 
Flower  boat,  model  made  of  ivory,  1'  5".     (1883) 
Flower  boat,  model  made  of  ivory,   1'3". 


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AN    AMERICAN   BRIG 
Model  made  by  a  native  (  n  the  west  coast  of  Africa  abcut  1852.     See  page  73. 


•DHOW   OR    TRADING    BOAT 

Model  made  by  a  native  on  the  east  coast  of  Africa  before  1849. 


Flower  boat,  model  made  of  pottery,  1'  4".     (1860) 
War  boat,  rigged  model,  3'  9". 
Sampan,  model,  9".     (1882) 

Formosa. 

Bambu  fishing  raft,  rigged  model,  2'  1" .     (1877) 

Greenland. 

One  man  kaiak.  model,  2'.     (1884) 


India. 


Fast  boat,  model,  4'  7",  from  Calcutta.     (1869) 
Surf  boat,  model,  1'  6",  from  Madras.     (1877) 
Race  boat,  model,  3'  9",  from  Travancore.     (1883) 


Japan. 


Trading  junk,  rigged  model,  5'  5".  (1800)  A  builder's 
working  model  with  parts  lettered  to  correspond  with  colored 
plans. 

Trading  junk,  rigged  model,  4'  9".     (Old) 

Trading  junk,  rigged  model,  2'  8".     (1866) 

Trading  junk,  rigged  model,  V  10". 

Trading  junk,  rigged  model,  V  5".     (1882) 

War  junk,  model,  5'  3". 

Pleasure  boat,  model,  1'  5".     (1882) 

Pleasure  boat,  model,  2'  3".     (1893) 

Small  boat,  model.  2'.     (1800)     Tender  for  trading  junk. 

Small  boat,  model,  7".     (1882)     Tender  for  trading  junk. 


Madagascar. 


Outrigger  canoe,  model,  3'  7".  (1831) 

Outrigger  canoe,  model.  4'  3".  (1870) 

Outrigger  canoe,  model,  2'  5".  (1890) 

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Malay. 

Piratical  boat,  rigged  model,  5'.     (1838) 

Piratical  boat,  rigged  model,  4'  8".     (1841) 

Trading  boat,  rigged  model,  1'  10".     (1823) 

Trading  boat,  rigged  model,  2'  6".     ( 1826) 

Trading  boat,  rigged  model,  3'  11".     (1838) 

Double  outrigger  canoe,  rigged  model,  3'  2",  from  Sumatra. 

Boat,  model  made  of  cloves,  1'6",  from  Ambonia  Island. 

Malay  Peninsula. 

Fast  boat,  model,  4'  11",  from  Singapore.     (1854) 

Fast  boat,  model,  4'  9",  from  Singapore. 

Fast  boat,  model,  4'  4". 

Fast  boat,  rigged  model,  4'  9",  from  Singapore.     (1854) 

Fast  boat,  rigged  model,  4'  9",  from  Singapore. 

Pacific  Islands. 

Outrigger  canoe,  model,  3'  7",  from  Kusaie,  Caroline  Islands. 
(1892) 

Outrigger  canoe,  model,  2'  7",  from  Kusaie,  Caroline  Islands. 
(1892) 

Outrigger  canoe,  model,  2'  6",  from  Kusaie,  Caroline  Islands, 
(1892) 

Outrigger  canoe,  model,  4' 8",  from  Ruk,  Caroline  Islands. 
(1892) 

Double  canoe,  rigged  model,  3'  7",  from  Fiji  Islands.     (1858) 

Double  canoe,  rigged  model,  2'  3",  from  Fiji  Islands.     (1858) 

Outrigger  canoe,  model,  3'  6",  from  Hawaiian  Islands. 

Outrigger  canoe,  model,  V  6",  from  Hawaiian  Islands. 
(1864) 

Canoe,  model,  3'  1",  from  Hawaiian  Islands.     (1802) 

Canoe,  model,  V  5",  from  Hawaiian  Islands. 

Double  canoe,  rigged  model,  2'  8",  from  Manahiki  Island. 

Canoe,  model,  4'  6",  from  Manahiki  Island. 

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MANDARIN'S   BOAT 
Chinese  model  made  before  1883. 


FLOWER    BOAT 
Chinese  model  made  ol  ivory  before  1883. 


Outrigger  canoe,  model,  1' 8",  from  Marquesas  Islands. 
(1817) 

Outrigger  canoe,  rigged  model,  6',  from  Marshall  Islands. 
(1892) 

Outrigger  canoe,  model,  2'  10",  from  Nanouti,  Gilbert  Islands. 
(1892) 

War  canoe,  model,  6'  10",  from  New  Zealand.     (1838) 

Outrigger  canoe,  model,  7'  8",  from  Niue  Island. 

Outrigger  canoe,  model,  2'  2",  from  Niue  Island. 

Canoe,  model,  1'  10",  from  Niue  Island. 

Outrigger  canoe,  15'  3",  from  Samoan  Islands. 

Philippine  Islands. 

Double  outrigger  canoe,  rigged  model,  4'  1".     (1885) 


SlAM. 


River  boat,  model,  2'  1" . 
River  boat,  model,  1'  5". 
Small  boat,  model,  1'  10".     (1894) 


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INDEX 


Adams,  John,  (President),  73. 

J.  Q.  (President),  1. 
Africa,  boat  models,  159. 
Ahmet  ben  Haman,  101,  102,  157. 
Aiken,  William  B.,  102. 
Aleutian  Islands,  boat  models,  160. 
Alexander,  Francis,  100,  1 10,  156. 
Allen,  Edward  (1735-1803),  18,  102. 

Edward  (1763-1845),  100,  102. 

Gardner  W.,  166. 

George  H.,  30. 

John  Fiske,  102. 

John  W.,  41. 
Ambergris.  142. 
America,  North,  boat  models,  160. 

South,  boat  models,  161. 
Anchors,  130. 
Andrews,  Horatio  N.,  142. 
Ansted.  A.,  166. 
Appendix,  135. 
Arabic,  letters  in,  113. 
Archer,  Henry,  44. 

Athapascan  Indians,  boat  models,  161. 
Atlantic  Shipping  Co.,  80. 
Austin,  William,  32. 
Ayhvard,  W.  J.,  62,  147. 


Babson,  John  J.,  166. 

Bache's  silhouettes,  117,  118. 

Backsights,  on  quadrants,  96. 

Bacon,  Eustice,  23. 

Baer,  A..  111. 

Baffin  Land,  boat  model,  159. 

Bainbridge,  Com.  W'illiam,  61,  74. 

Baleen  boxes,  131. 

Ballard,  Captain,  42. 

Balsa,  rush  raft,  161,  162. 

Barkentine,  49,  71,  79,  83. 

Barker  and  Magoun,  90. 

Barker,  Thomas,  87,  138. 

Bark,  17,  20,  22,  24,  28,  31,  35,  36.  38, 
40-42,  44,  46,  50,  51,  54,  55,  71-73, 
77-79,  81,  83-85,  139,  140,  146. 

Barnard,  Lydia,  45. 

Barometers,  88. 

Barr,  James  98,  102. 

Bartol  Samuel,  65,  147. 


Bateau,  59. 

Bateman,  Charles  E.,  25,  147. 
Bates,  Jonathan  B.,  54. 
Beadle.  Charles,  93,  132. 

John,  141. 

William,  97. 
Becket,  Daniel  C,  20,  69,  73,  74,  87,  137. 

John  (1776-1816),  103,  1.57. 

John  (1791-1873),  103. 

Retire,  19,  22,  23,  26,  33,  38,  41,  46, 
129,  137. 
Beckets,  chest,  128. 
Bennett,  Frank  M.,  166. 
Benson,  Frank,  W.,  100,  109,  112,  156. 

Samuel,  46,  103. 
Bentley,  Rev.  William,  100,  102,  138,  139 

142,  156,  166. 
Bequests  of  objects,  132. 
Bertram,  John,  55,  100,  103,  139,  140. 
Beverlv,  ships,  173. 
Binnacle,  88. 
Binney,  Arthur,  69,  70. 
Black-Bali  Line,  6. 
I    Black  Hawk,  103. 
Blake,  Robert,  103. 
Blankley,  Thomas  R.,  166. 
Block  Island  boat,  71. 
Boat  models,  native,  foreign,  159. 
Boat,  paper,  77. 
Bolivia,  boat  model,  162. 
Bombarde,  59. 
Bonaparte,  Charles  J.,  130. 

Lucien,  33. 
Boston  merchants,  173. 
Boston,  vessels  built  at,  144. 
Bottles,  designs  in,  75. 
Boucher,  H.  E.,  71. 
Bowditch,  Nathaniel,    96,    97,    100,    104, 

132,  158. 
Bowen,  Abel,  166. 
Bowker  Brothers,  85. 
Boyd,  Adam,  142. 
Braekeleer,  F.  de,  108,  156. 
Bradlee,  Francis  B.  C,  167. 
Brainard,  F.  R.,  167. 
Brazil,  boat  models,  161,  162. 
Bridges,  Henry  G..  104. 


75 


Brig.  7,  8,  16,  19.  20,  22,  25,  29,  31- 
40,  42-47.  53,  54,  56,  69,  72,  73,  77, 
82,  83,  138.  139,  142. 

himaphrodite,  7,  8,  15,  22,  24,  29,  36, 
37,  43,  44,  51.  55.  73. 
Brigantine.  7,  8,  15,  26,  44,  50,  73. 
Briggs.  Gushing  O.  and  Henry,  32. 

EUjah,  25,  37,  40,  44,  82,  138   14L 

Enos,  18,  21.  22.  27,  29.  30,  31,  46,  47, 
77,  79,  138,  139,  140,  144. 

James  R,  104. 

Luther,  49. 

L.  Vernon,  167. 
Brooks.  John  F..  104.  123,  156. 
Brooks  and  Usher,  167. 
Brown,  Harry,  64,  147. 

Toscoh  26 

Joshua',  77-83,  85,  86,  140.  141. 

Porter,  65,  147. 

William  (1769-1802),  104. 

William  (1783-1833),  104. 
Browne,  Albert  G.,  121. 
Bubbles,  hydrostatic.  91. 
Buffington,  James.  104. 
Burgess.  HoUis,  70. 
Bumham,  Daniel  A.,  78. 

David  &  Willard  A.,  78.  142. 

J.  Horace,  80,  142. 

Jeremiah,  85,  142. 

Oliver,  85,  142. 

Willard  A..  78.  80.  84. 
Burrill,  Josiah  G..  104. 
Burwell,  A.  A.,  24,  42. 
Busks,  131. 
Butman,  John  C.,  40. 

Calcutta,  boat  model,  163. 

Calendars,  ship.  171. 

Caliga.  I.  H..  100.  114,  156. 

Calipers,  88. 

Campbell.  Georgme.  112,  lo6. 

Canes  131. 

Canoe  models.  161-160. 

Canton  Factories,  pamtmgs,  6b,  67,  148. 

167,  169. 
Canton  River,  paintings,  67. 
Capetown,  painting,  66,  148. 
Carlotta,  A..  62,  147. 
Carmillieri,  Nicolai,  15,  26.  41,  147. 
Carmiletti.  E.,  37,  147 
Games,  John,  105.  ^  ,   ,^, 

Caroline  Islands,  boat  model,  164. 
Carpenter,  Benjamin,  100,  105,  133. 
Carter,  Justin,  54,  139. 
Catamaran,  161,  162. 
Cat-o-nine-tails,  129. 
Ceylon,  boat  models,  162. 
Chamberlain,  Frances,  110. 


Champion,  Richard,  151. 
Chandeliers,  Venetian  glass.  133. 
Chapman,  Moses.  117,  118. 

William  O.,  171. 
Charting  instruments.  92. 
Ghatterton  E.  Keble,  167. 
Ghebacco  boats,  142. 
Ghebec,  59. 

Cheever,  Josiah  C,  117. 
Chelsea,  vessels  built  at,  144. 
Chest,  camphor  wood,  132. 
medicine,  126. 
sea,  126. 
ship's,  126. 
Ghever,  James  W.,  76. 
China,  boat  models.  162. 
Chincha  Islands,  painting.  66. 
Chinook  Indians,  boat  model,  161. 
Ghoate,  David,  167. 
Chronometers,  89. 
Chute,  Sir  James,  58. 
Circle  of  Reflection,  89. 
Circle,  half.  91. 
Clarence,  Captain,  72. 
Clark,  Arthur  H.,  167. 
Cleveland,  Elizabeth,  117. 
George.  117. 
George  W.,  105.  157. 
Richard  J..  167. 

William,  28,  57,  105,  132,  148,  158. 
Clipper   ship.    11.  12.  17,  25,  35.  41.  55, 

167. 
Gogeshall.  George.  167. 
Cohasset.  vessels  built  at,  146. 

shipmasters,  167. 
Cole,  Leland  H.,  28. 
Collier.  Edmund.  167. 
Collins.  Joseph  W.,  168. 
Colors,  see  Flags. 
Compass.  89. 
azimuth,  89. 
Chinese.  89. 
tell-tale,  89. 
Congo,  boat  model,  159. 
Cook,  Gapt.  James,  90,  105,  156. 
Coolidge,  J.  T.,  70. 
Gorzini,  Raffael,  32,  148. 
Gome,  Michele  F.,  4,  18,  27,  33,  35,  38, 
41,  52,  53.  65,  66,  105,  146.  148,  152, 
156,  170. 
Cottle,  William,  139. 
Crandall,  Newport,  R.  I.,  78,  82,  84,  86. 
Greesy.  Josiah  Perkins,  12,  80. 
Crowley,  Cornelius,  85. 
Crowninshield.  Gapt.  Benj.,  18.  105,  157. 
B.  B.,  168. 

Hon.  Benj.  W.,  1,  101,  168. 
Caspar,  132. 
Francis  B.,  168. 


176 


Crowninshield,  George,  18,  22.  60,  65,  106. 

Jacob,  100,  101,  106,  157. 

John,  128. 
Crowninshield's  Wharf,  152. 
Cumberland,  U.  S.  S.,  96. 
Currier,  52. 

C.  H.  &  Co.,  40,  79. 

John  J.,  84,  142,  168. 
Currier  &  Townsend,  46. 
Curtis,  Paul,  31,  81. 

P.  &J.  O.,  21. 
Curwen.  Samuel  R.,  31,  47. 
Curves,  adjustable,  90. 

Dannenberg,  F.,  42,  148. 
Danvers,  vessels  built  at,  144. 
Davies,  Prof.  Charles,  90. 
Davis,  John,  95. 

Dean,  Walter  L.,  77.  . 

Depths,  instruments  for  measunng,  9^ 
Derbv,  Elias  Hasket,  31,    100,    101,    106, 
138,  156. 
Richard,  3. 

Samuel,  28.  ,      ^ , 

Derby  house,  pamtmgs  m  cupola,  41. 
Derby  wharf,  147. 
Desks,  ship-masters',  132. 
Devereux,  James,  27. 
Dewey,  Admiral  George,  123. 
Dexter,  Henry,  108,  119,  156.         . 
Diameters,  instrument  for  measunng,  9- 
Dividers,  90. 

Dobson,  Benjamin  P.,  86. 
Dodge,  F.  W.  Co.,  140. 
Pickering,  100,  106,  158. 

Dog-vane,  90. 

Dory,  models,  73. 

Dowden,  James,  83,  124. 

Drag,  ship's,  130. 

Drew,  Clement,  20,  34,  53,  148. 

Driver,  William,  146. 

Dugout,  models,  159,  160,  161. 

Dunn,  Thomas  C,  23,  128. 

Dutch  East  India  Company,  28. 

Dutte,  Rajendra,  101,  118. 

Eagleston,  John  H.,  106,  158. 
East  India  Marine  Hall,  dedicated,  1. 
East  India  Marine  Soc,  rehcs,  132. 
Eaton,  WiUiam  B.,  54,  56,  148. 
Edge,  G.  W.,  43. 
Elkins,  Henry,  107,  157. 
Elmina,  painting,  66. 
Embargo  period,  169. 
Emery,  Noah,  117. 
Emmons,  Lt.  George  F.,  168. 
Endicott,  Moses,  45. 
William,  30. 


English,  Philip,  3. 
Erskine,  Charles,  63,  131,  168. 
Eshing,  Hong  merchant,  107. 
Eskimo,  kaiak,  160. 
kaiak  model,  159. 
Essex  County,  Mass.,  history,  169. 
Essex  Institute,  objects  from,  2. 
Essex,  ship-building  at,  142,  167,  171. 
Essex  Guards,  colors,  121. 
Everdean,  Captain,  70. 
Evans  &  Arnold,  36,  48,  148. 

Falconer,  William,  169. 
Fast  boat,  Malay,  model,  164. 
Feloque,  59. 
Felt,  Joseph,  15. 

Rev.  Joseph  B.,  169. 
Fetteplace,  WiUiam,  100,  107. 
Figureheads,  62,  125. 
Fiji  Islands,  boat  models,  164. 
Fire-board,  16,  41,  56. 
Fishing  Industry,  125. 
Fiske,  John  B.,  107,  158. 
Flag,  120,  167,  169. 
American,  121. 
American  in  Japan,  28. 
Chinese,  123. 
European,  123. 
House,  120,  121. 
Japanese,  123. 
Korean,  123. 
PhiUppine,  123. 
Red  Cross,  123. 
to  mark  whale,  123. 
U.  S.  Transport,  122. 
Flower  boat,  Chinese,  models,  162,  163. 
Fogg,  Fred,  51. 
Forbes,  J.  M.,  19. 

Robert  B.,  69. 
Ford,  James,  15. 
Formosa,  boat  models,  163. 
Foster  &  Co.,  36. 
Foster  &  Taylor,  35. 
Francis,  Joseph,  73. 
Frigate  in  gale,  153. 
Frisbee,  Andrew  J.,  141. 
Frothingham,  James,  100,  106,  156,  158. 
Frye,  Nathan,  44. 
Frye's  Mills,  138. 
Fuller,  George,  20,  50. 
Enoch,  62,  71.  75. 
Thomas,  17,  107. 
Furness,  R.  T.,  108,  156. 
Furze,  George,  108,  157. 

Gage,  Thomas,  169. 
Gale,  Samuel,  107. 
Gallup.  John  L.,  107. 


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Gauging  instruments,  90. 

Gavazzone,  Domenico,  49,  148. 

Ghose,  Durgha  Prasanna,  101,  119. 

Gibaut,  John,  128. 

Gifts,  memorial,  132. 

Gilbert  Islands,  boat  models,  165. 

Gill,  Charles,  32. 

Gillis,  James,  D.,  108. 

Glass,  paintings  on,  42,  47. 

Glazier,  George,  69. 

Globes,  old,  90. 

Gloucester,  history,  166. 

vessels  built  at,  143. 
Godfrey,  Thomas,  95. 
Goodhue,  Benjamin,  117. 
Goldsmith,  Zaccheus,  129. 
Gondola,  Venice,  73. 
Gore,  Charles,  58,  149. 
Grand  Manan,  steamer  ofi,  57. 
Grav,  Edward,  34,  169. 

Lucia,  99. 

William,  12,  34,  99,  100,  101,  108,  119, 
130,  131,  156,  169. 

William  B.,  73. 
Graves,  William  B.,  42. 
"Great  Ship,"  the,  5,  6,  32,  138. 
Greenland,  kaiak,  163. 

Gueissippi, ,  21,  149. 

Gulliver,  Mary,  105,  157. 

Hadley,  John,  95. 

Haida  Indians,  boat  model,  161. 

Hall,  Isaac  &  Co.,  79. 

Samuel,  36. 
Hallet,  Franklin,  23. 
Hammond,  John,  47. 

Joseph,  126. 
Haraden,  Captain,  108,  157. 

Jonathan,  108. 
Harbors,  paintings  of,  65. 
Harding,  Chester.  Ill,  114,  157. 
Hardv,  Joseph,  137. 
Harrison,  Peleg  D.,  169. 
Hartwell,  Alonzo,  111,  114,  157. 

Joseph,  72. 
Hawaiian  Islands,  boat  models,  164. 
Hawkes,  Benjamin,  37,  139. 
Hawkins,  John  F.,  77. 
Havden  &  Cudworth,  18,  54. 
Hinkley,  Robert,  106,  113,  157. 
Hirshmann,  157. 
Hodge,  Charles,  42. 
Hodges,  Benjamin,  117,  119. 

Mrs.  Benjamin,  117. 

Gamaliel,  98. 

George,  53,  61,  133. 

Jonathan,  100. 
Hoffman,  Charles,  88,  91,  108,  158. 
Hollingworth,  Richard,  137. 


HolHs,  Prof.  Ira  N.,  169. 
Holyoke,  Dr.  E.  A.,  98. 
Hong  Kong,  painting,  67. 
Horizon,  artificial,  91. 
Horneman,  Christian,  157. 
Howard.  Joseph,  25,  149. 
Howe,  O.  T.,  169. 
Hoyt  &  Jenks.  90. 
Hudson's  Bay,  kaiak,  159. 
HuHn,  W'illiam,  141. 
Hull,  Com.  Isaac,  61. 
Humphreys,  Edwin,  70,  71,  79,  83. 
Hunneweil.  James,  139,  169. 
Hurd,  D.  Hamilton,  169. 
Hunt,  Thomas  &  Co.,  68. 
Hunter,  William  C,  169. 
Hydrometer,  91. 
Hygrometer,  91. 

India,  boat  models,  163. 
Instruments,  nautical,  88. 
Irons  &  Grinnell,  32. 
Ishizaki,  Yushi,  28. 
Issaverdens,  Peter,  32. 


Jagging  wheels,  131. 
Jackson,  George  W.,  Jr.,  143. 
James,  Galen,  145. 

J.  G.,  142. 

John  &  Co.,  142. 
Japan,  American  vessels  at,  28. 

boat  models,  163. 

junk-builder's  model,  163. 
Jeakes.  aquatint,  60. 
Jefferson,  Thomas,  (President),  133. 
Jenkins,  Lawrence  W.,  13,  159. 
Jenks,  Elias,  139. 
Jenks  &  Hovt,  19,  47,  49. 
Johnson,  William,  109. 
Junk,  Chinese,  models,  162. 

Japanese,  models,  163. 

Kaiak,  159,  160. 
Kane,  Dr.  E.  K.,  142. 
Kappanf,  C,  16,  149. 
Kendrick,  Capt.,  28. 
Kennedy,  Samuel,  22. 
Ketch,  9,  35,  79. 
Killicks,  130,  170. 
King,  Henry,  21,  108,  128. 

Henrv  F.,  108,  158. 

Robert  W.,  109. 
King's  silhouettes,  117. 
Kinsman.  Nathaniel,  52. 

Nathaniel  J.,  18. 
Kirkland,  President  Harvard  College,  2. 
Kodiak  Island,  boat  model,  160. 
Knots,  books  about,  129. 


[78 


Knots  —  Continued 

measurement.  93. 

splices,  etc.,  128,  129,  172. 
Kusiae  Island,  boat  model.  164. 

Labrador,  boat  model,  160. 
Ladd  and  Piper,  17,  26. 
Lambert,  Ebenezer,  137. 
Lamps,  ships',  131. 
Lamson,  Zachary,  169. 
Lander,  William,  109. 
Lane,  Edward,  127. 
Lanterns,  ship's,  13L 
Lantz,  Owen  S.,  82. 
Lassen.  Peter,  24. 
Launching,  model,  77. 
Lawrence,  Capt.  James,  60. 
Leach,  Samuel,  141. 
Leads,  hand  and  deep  sea,  92. 
Leavitt,  William,  170. 
Lee,  George,  23. 
John,  Jr.,  15. 
Lefavour,  Joseph,  109. 
Lendholm.  Frederick,  12.  109. 

Rebecca,  M  ,  109. 
Leslie,  C.  R.,  100,  157. 
Letter  of  marque,  9. 
Lewis,  Samuel,  82,  139. 

Alonzo  &  Newhall,  Jas.  R.,  170. 
Liberia,  boat  model,  159. 
Lindsey,  Benjamin  J.,  144,  170. 
Life-boat,  model,  73. 
Liverpool  from  Cheshire,  56,  154. 
Livingstone,  Dr.  David,  97. 
Llovds,  American,  166. 
Log,  Gould's  patent,  used  in  1817,  10. 
harpoon,  93. 
heaving  the,  93. 
Log-books,  11,  125. 
Log-glass,  92. 
Log-line,  93. 
Log-watch,  93. 
Lord,  George  E.,  93. 
Low,  Abiel  A.,  119. 

A.  A.  &  Brother,  41. 
Lowestoft,  Chinese,  133. 
Ludlow,  Lieut.,  60. 
Lugger  and  Cutter,  56,  154. 
Lunt,  George,  29. 

Luscomb,  William  Henry,  30,  32,  36, 
44,  47,  149. 

Luz .  . . , ,  of  Venice,  43. 

Lynch,  Lieut.,  113. 
Lynn,  history,  170. 
vessels  built  at,  144. 


Macao,  paintings,  67. 
McFarlane,  D.,  32.  64,  149. 


39, 


Mclntire,  Samuel,  119,  125,  157,  168. 
McKay.  Donald,  15,  34.  80,  85. 
Mackav,  Harvey  C.  31. 
McKenzie,  J.  &  L.,  142. 

James,  82. 
McKibben,  Frank  P..  170. 
Maclay,  Edgar  S.,  15,  60,  70,  109,  1/0. 
McMuUan,  William,  102,  128. 

memorial  gifts,  132. 
Macpherson.  Murdock,  15,  17-27,  29,  30, 
32-35.  37-40.  42,  44-46,  48-51,  53-i)5, 
59,  65,  120,  150. 
Madagascar,  boat  models,  163 
Madison,  James,  (President^  53,  101,  133. 
Madras,  surf  boat,  model,  163. 
Magoun,  David,  15,  138 

Thatcher,  17,  19,  33,  37,  41.  46   144. 
Magnetism,  instrument  to  detect,  94. 
Makah  Indians,  boat  model,  161. 
Malay,  boat  models,  164. 
Mallini,  Gustavo  A.,  65,  150 
Manahiki  Island,  boat  model,  164. 
Mandarin,  Chinese,  119. 
Mandarin's  boat,  model,  162. 
Mann,  Ebenezer,  46,  138. 
Mansfield,  Charles,  118. 
Marblehead  vessels,  144,  170. 
Marine  Room,  established,  2. 
Marquesas,  boat  model.  165. 
Marshall  Islands,  boat  model,  16o. 
Mason,  George  C,  170.  i^r  .•       i 

Massachusetts    8th    regiment.    National 

Guard,  flags  of,  120,  121,  122. 
Massachusetts      15th     regiment,      btate 

Guard,  flags  of,  120,  121. 
Mazzinghi,  Peter,  38  43,  150 
Medford,  vessels  built  at.  144,  16/,  1/U, 

173. 
Merchant  vessels,  lists,  170. 
Merrimac,  ship-building  on  the,  14-,  lb». 
Metzer,  J.,  105,  157.  ^  ,    ,^. 

Micmac  Indians,  boat  model,  ibu. 
Miles,  sea  and  land,  93. 
Miller,  Captain,  42. 

E.  F..  5,  31.  79.  81,  82,  139. 
Tobias,  139 
Millett,  F.  D.,  73. 

Joseph  Hardy,  55,  7b 
Minot's  Ledge  light,  lens,  131. 
Mistico,  59. 

Mitter,  Radhakissen,  119. 
Mitter.  Rajkissen,  101,  119. 
Mocha,  painting,  66. 
Models,  builders'  half-hull.  77. 
builders'  transverse,  77. 
construction,  76. 
ethnological   159. 
rigged,  69. 
Montardier, .  25.  150. 


179 


Mooney,  Edward,  102,  157 
Mooy,  Jan,  21,  150. 
Morison,  Samuel  E.,  170. 
Morse,  Albert  P.,  13. 

F.  A.,  28,  150. 

George  F.,  37,  58,  151. 

Henry  W.,  141. 

Prof.  Edward  S..  13,  101,  109,  156. 
Mugford,  Charles  D.,  17. 

William,  53,  110,  166. 
Museum  (E.  I.  M.  Soc),  founded,  1. 

Nanouti  Island,  boat  model,  165. 
Nance,  R.  Morton,  130,  170. 
Naples,  painting,  65. 
Nasserwanjee,  101,  110,  119. 
Naumkeag  Trust  Co.,  171,  172. 
Nautical  Instruments,  88,  171. 
Naval,  battle,  painting,  64. 

books,  war  of  1812,  166. 

records  of  Amer.  Revolution,  171. 
Naval  vessels,  paintings,  64. 

vessels,  U.  S.,  168,  170. 
Navv,  U.  S.  steam,  166. 
Neaf,  David  A.,  144. 

Nathan  W.,  100,  110,  156. 
Nelson,  William  H.,  32. 
Newburyport  Marine  Soc,  171. 
New  Zealand,  boat  model,  165. 
Nichols,  John,  Jr.,  38. 

Jonathan,  55. 
Niue  Island,  boat  model,  165. 
Nocturnal,  94. 

Non-magnetic  instrument,  94. 
Nootka  Indians,  boat  model,  161. 
Norton.  Charles  W.,  48,  151. 

William  E.,  57,  151. 
Norwood,  Carleton,  28. 

Octants,  94. 

Ojibwa  Indians,  boat  model,  160. 

"Old  Glory,"  146. 

Orne,  Josiah,  43,  44,  100,  110. 

William,  100,  110. 
Osgood,  Charles,  100,  106,  107,  108,  115, 
158. 

Charles  S.   &   Batchelder,   Henry   M., 
171. 

William,  23. 
Outrigger  canoe,  models,  162,  164,  165. 

double,  models,  164,  165. 

Pacific  Islands,  boat  models,  164. 
Packard  &  Burgess,  83. 
Page,  Jeremiah,  5. 

Samuel,  131. 
Paine,  Ralph  D.,  28. 
Painters  of  portraits,  156. 
Painters  of  ship  pictures,  147. 


Paintings  of  vessels,  15. 
Palmas,  cape,  boat  model,  159. 
Para,  painting,  66. 

river,  boat  model,  162. 
Parker,  Edgar,  100. 

memorial  gifts,  132. 

W.  P.,  17,  151. 
Peabody,  Alfred,  55. 

Brackley  R.,  19,  110. 

Francis,  110. 

George,  101,  111,  158. 

Joseph,  5,  12,  30,  100,  138,  158. 

Museum,  Trustees,  2. 

Robert  E.,  171. 
Pelligrini,  Hr^.,  46,  47,  49,  151. 
Pembroke,  ship-building  at,  167. 
Penobscot  Indians,  boat  model,  160. 
Pepper,  scales  and  weights,  96. 
Philippine  Islands,  boat  model,  165. 
Phillips,  John,  16. 
Phippen,  Jon.,  49,  151. 
Phipps,  John  Adams,  111. 
Photographs,  126. 
Perkins,  Thomas,  96. 
Perley,  Nathaniel,  143. 
Perry,  William,  17. 
Petersen,  Jacob,  44,  151. 
Pickering,  Col.  Timothy,  1. 
Pickman,  Dudley  L.,  100,  111,  118,  157. 
Pickman,  Silsbee  &  Allen,  27.  40,  145. 
Pick- wicks,  131. 
Pinel,  Philip  P.,  97.    . 
Pingree,  David,  142. 

T.  P.  &  Co.,  38. 
Pinkie,  70,  72. 
Pinque,  b9. 

Pirate,  Malay,  boat  model,  164. 
Pitchers.  45. 

Planisphere,  Japanese,  94. 
Pocock,  Nicholas,  58,  151. 
Point  Barrow,  kaiak,  159. 
Point  de  Galle,  boat  models,  162. 
Polacre,  59. 

Poland,  Archer  B.,  142. 
PoUi,  Felice,  17,  45,  152. 
Pomo  Indians,  boat  model,  161. 
Pook,  Samuel  A.,  80. 
Portoferrajo,  painting,  65,  150. 
Portraits,  100. 
Ports,  paintings,  65. 
Potter,  John,  111. 
Pratt,  Henry  C,  111,  158. 

Joseph,  32,  111,  158. 
Preble,  George  H.,  171. 
Preston,  Joseph,  112. 
Prince,  John,  171. 

Rev.  Dr.,  98. 
Prints,  drawings,  etc.,  126. 
Prisoners  of  War,  English,  61. 


l8o 


Privateer,  9.  27,  35,  102,  103,  108,  110, 

115,  116,  167,  170. 
Protractor,  94. 

Providence  ship-masters,  172. 
Pump,  implement  for  settmg  ships  ,  92. 
Punch-bowls,  31,  61,  133. 
Putnam,  Allen,  100,  158. 

George  G.,  172. 

Hiram,  21. 

ship-builder,  37. 

Quadrants,  94. 

Davis,  95. 

Hadley,  95. 

Jackass,  95. 
Quallah  Battoo.  29,  62. 
Quinby,  Frederick,  115,  lo8. 
Quincy.  Hon.  Josiah,  1. 

Raft,  bambu  fishing,  163. 

rush,  161,  162. 
Raleigh,  C.  S.,  24,  152. 
Rantoul,  Robert  S.,  171. 
Rattles,  battle,  132.  __ 
Raynes,  George,  19,  55.  78. 
Read,  Benjamin,  40. 
Reade,  Gen.  fCol.)  Philip,  122. 
Reed,  John,  20. 
Reith,  John,  112, 
Relics:   Beadle,  Charles,  132. 

Bowditch,  Nathaniel,  132. 

Ckopaira's  Barge,  22,  132. 

Parker,  132. 

Richardson,  132. 
Ressman,  Francisco,  38,  lo2. 
Reynolds,  J.  N.,  172. 

Stephen,  112,  158. 
Rhoades,  Charles,  118. 
Rhuee,  Thomas,  113. 
Richardson,  Addison,  20,  89,  97,  112,  126, 
131. 

Edward,  21,  132. 

Isaac,  112. 

Kate  S.,  Mrs.,  21,  132. 

William,  21. 
Ridgeway,  J.  &  W.,  bowl,  133. 
Rigs,  how  to  distinguish,  172. 
Robertson,  John  M,  39. 
Robinson,  Andrew,  143. 

James,  118. 

John,  13,  101,  112.  156. 
Rodgers,  of  Medford,  48. 
Rogers,  Augustus  D.,  32,  52,  152. 

John  W.,  112,  156. 

Nathaniel  L..  100,  113. 

Richard  S.,  100,  113,  157. 

Willian  C,  11. 
Ropes,  Andrew  M.,  46,  113,  152. 


Ropes,  Edward  D.,  122. 

George,  4,  16,  25,  26,  30,  43,  44,  50,  o2, 
61,  64,  65,  152. 
Ropes  and  cables,  129. 
Roux,  Anton,  19,  25,  27,  32,  37,  42,  o\, 
53,  58,  59,  152. 

Anton,  Jr.,  22,  30,  46,  153. 

Francois,  44,  153. 

Frederic,  20,  21,  153. 

Joseph,  fils  aine,  96. 

Joseph-Ange-Antome,  96,  152. 
Rowley,  history  of,  169. 

vessels  built  at,  143. 
Rowell,  William,  141. 
Rudder  magazine,  172. 
j    Ruk  Island,  boat  model,  164. 
Rulers,  parallel,  96. 
Russell  &  Co.,  37. 

Benjamin,  41,  153. 

Edward  J.,  60,  lo3. 

Thomas,  70. 

! 

Sacalero,  59. 
1    Safford,  Joshua,  113. 
Said  bin  SuUan,  Seyyid,  101,  113,  114. 

!    St  iSemin,  Charles  B.  J.  F.  de,  100,  105, 

I  158. 

1    Salem,  Cadets,  flags  of,  120,  121. 

East  India  Marine  Society,  1,  172. 

Gazette,  172. 

Guide  to,  173. 

harbor,  65.  ^   ,  ^, 

Light  Infantry,  flags  of,  120,  121. 

Marine  Society,  172. 

Observer,  172. 

Old-time  Ships  of,  172. 

Register,  172. 

ship-building  at,  170. 

ship-masters,  173. 

sketch  of,  171. 
Salmon,  Robert,  5,  37,  53,  56.  154. 
Samoan  Islands,  boat  model,  165. 
Sampan,  Chinese,  model,  163. 
Sand-glass,  92. 
Saul,  J.  Warren,  92. 

Thomas,  114. 
Saunders,  Dr.  Levi,  36,  71. 

Jonathan  P.,  118. 
Scale  beams,  96. 
Scale,  Gunter's,  90. 
Schell,  A.  Bertram,  111,  158. 
Schiller,  B.  C,  107,  158. 
Schooner,  fishing,  168. 

models,  73,  74. 

origin  of  name,  143. 

topsail,  8,  18,  19,  26,  34,  46.  50,  54,  d7, 
148. 
Scituate,  ship-building  at,  167. 


i8i 


Scobie,  John  J.,  21.  43.  47.  114. 
Scrimshaw  work,  131. 
Sea-chests.  126. 
Sea-journals,  125. 
Sea-songs  and  shanties,  173. 
Sea  terms,  dictionarv  of,  166. 
Sears,  John  Henry,  101,  114.  156. 
Seller,  John.  173. 
Seminole  Indians,  dugout,  160. 
Se.xtant,  97,  167. 

pocket,  97. 
Shanties,  sea  songs  and,  173. 
Shepard,  Michael.  114. 
Ship-building; 
Boston,  144,  145. 
Cohasset,  146. 
Chelsea,  144,  145. 
Danvers,  144. 
Essex,  142,  167.  171. 
Gloucester,  143. 
Lynn,  144. 
Marblehead,  144. 
Medford.  144.  167,  170,  173. 
On  the  Merrimac,  142,  168. 
Pembroke,  167. 
Rowlev,  143. 
Salem,' 3,  5,  137-141,  170. 
Scituate,  167. 
Ship  models,  builders,  76. 
Dartmoor  prison,  74. 
glass,  74,  75. 
half-hull,  76. 
hull.  76. 
Mill  prison,  74. 
rigged,  69. 
Ship  Register,  Salem,  173. 
Shipping,  American  and  foreign,  172. 
Ships,  books  on,  167. 
Boston.  173. 
dimensions  of,  6. 
early  pictures  of,  4. 
largest  in  Salem,  5. 
made  into  wharf  and  hotel.  47,  48. 
old-time  Salem.  172. 
speed  of.  10. 
Shiriey,  John,  43. 
Siam,  boat  models.  16o. 
Signal  flags,  private.  120. 
Silhouettes.  117. 
Silsbee,  Edward  A..  98. 
George  S..  83. 

Nathaniel.  95,  100.  114,  128,  157. 
Silver.  James,  37. 
Simmons,  Thomas,  32. 
Singapore,  boat  model,  164. 
Skeet,  130. 

Skinner,  Herbert  M.  C,  8,  79.  80.  81. 
Slates,  98. 
Slocum,  W.  J.,  75. 


Sloop.  (1790).  57. 
Smith, ,  31. 

Augustus  A.,  77. 

C.  39. 

Samuel,  114. 

W.  H.,  40,  64.  154. 
Smith  &  Townsend.  83. 
Snell,  Nicholas  T.,  97. 
Snow,  9. 

Somes,  Thaddeus,  141. 
Sounding  iron,  89. 
Southward.  George,  40,  106,  158. 
Souvenirs  of  ships,  127. 
Speaking-trumpets,  131. 
Sprague  &  James.  144. 
Spv  glass,  98. 
Stagg,  Richard,  110. 
Staffordshire  ware,  133. 
Stanley,  J.  M.,  112,  158. 
Star  Spangled  Banner,  pieces  of  original, 

121. 
Starbuck,  Alexander,  173. 
State  Street  Trust  Co.,  173. 
Statuary,  118. 
Steers,  George,  77. 
Stone,  BenjaminW.,  &  Brothers,  34. 

Edmund,  o,  lo4. 
Stone,  Silsbee  &  Pickman.  18,  19,  24,  30, 

48,  79,  145. 
Stone  sloop.  86. 
Story,  Albert.  82,  142. 

Andrew,  142. 

Arthur  D.,  142. 

Ira,  78.  81.  84,  86.  144. 

Job.  85. 

William.  70.  144. 

U.  S.  Justice.  1. 
Streeter,  Gilbert.  173. 
Stuart.  Capt..  28. 

Gilbert,  108. 
Stubbs,  W.  P.,  31,  4'),  49,  51,  154. 
Sumatra,  boat  model.  164. 
Sunda,  straights  of,  66. 
Sunqua,  22,  41,  154. 
Surinam,  boat  model,  161. 
Swifts,  bone.  131. 
Swords,  dress  and  naval,  128. 


Tarr  &  James,  142. 
Taylor.  E.  A.,  24. 

John,  23.  27.  38,  40,  49,  50.  79,  83,  84, 
85,  88,  127.  145.  173. 

Justin,  83.  127,  141,  145. 
Teague,  Thomas.  141. 
Telescope,  Ponchon's.  98. 
Tierra  del  Fuego.  boat  model.  162. 
Tiger's  Mouth,  China,  paintings.  67. 
Titicaca.  lake,  boat  model,  162. 
Tlingit  Indians,  boat  model.  161. 


182 


Tonnage,  explanation  of,  3. 
Tools,  Caulkers',  129. 
coopers',  129. 
gaugers',  90. 
riggers',  129. 

ship-builders',  129.  ^    .^    .. 

Torrey,  Charles,  20.  26,  27,  40,  43,  44. 

51,  114,  155. 
Townsend,  Penn.,  114. 

T.  P. ,  154. 

Trabacolo,  59. 
Transit,  Bliss' Solar,  99 
Travancore,  boat  model,  lb.5. 
Trow,  Charles  E.,  173. 
True,  Joseph,  119,  158. 
Trumbull,  Edward  B.,  42. 
Tsimshian  Indians,  boat  model,  Ibl. 
Turner,  Caleb,  43. 
Christopher,  84,  138. 
RossS.:i8,  24,  29,  30,  46,60,  155. 

Tuttle,  H.,  36. 


Upton,  Captain,  61. 

Charles,  115. 

John,  52. 

Paul,  6. 

Robert,  139. 
United  States  23d  regiment, 
122. 


49. 


of,  120, 


Vanderford,  Benjamin,  118. 
Venezuela,  boat  model,  161. 
Vernet,  Joseph,  153. 
Vervoort,  Michael,  112. 
Very,  Jones,  17. 
Vespucci,  Amerigo,  llo. 
Vessels: 

Abaellino,  herm.  brig,  lo. 

Abbot  Lawrence,  ship,  lo. 

Abbott  Baldwin,  sch.,  83. 

Active,  brig,  16. 

Advance,  (Dr.  Kane's),  142. 

Aerial,  brigantine,  15. 

Agnes  Gleason,  sch.,  78. 

Alabama,  sch.,  69. 

Albert,  bark,  141. 

Alfred,  ship,  15,  138,  147. 

Alcyone,  bark,  77. 

Alert,  yacht,  77. 

Alexander,  ship,  105. 

Alice,  sch.,  77.  140. 

Alice  Mandell,  ship,  77. 

Alice  Wood,  sch.,  77. 

Alliance,  v.  S.S.,  (1778),  143. 

Almira  T.  Roland,  sch.,  77. 

Amazon,  brig,  77,  138. 

America  (2d),  ship,  106. 

America  (3d),  ship.  5.  16,  148. 


\e?>se\s  — Continued 

America  (.4th},  ship,  6,   10,   16.  65.  69, 

137,  150,  152.  153,  168. 
America,  yacht,  77. 
Andrew  Jackson,  ship,  12. 
Ann  Maria,  ship,  16,  142. 
Appomattox,  sch.,  78. 
Arabia,  bark,  85. 
Arabia,  ship,  16,  17,  149. 
Araeoynodes,  sch.,  17. 
Arbella,  ship,  17. 
Areatiis,  ship,  17. 
Arethiisa,  H.  B.  M.,  o8. 
Argentine,  bark,  139. 
Arizona,  steamship,  11. 
Astrea,  ship,  96. 
Atlantic,  ship,  107.  _ 
Amelia,  bark,  17,  lo2. 
Aurora,  ship,  78,  145.  ^ 
Aurora,  sloop  yacht,  17,  lol. 
Australia,  ship,  6,  18,  78. 
Autocrat,  145. 
Aza/eo,  sch.  yacht.,  69. 
Baltick,  sch.,  4,  8,  18,  69,  102.  lo3,  lo5. 
Bo2««r,  ship,  153. 

Belisarius,  ship,  6,  12,  18,  106,  148,  150. 
Benjamin  F.  Phillips,  sch..  69,  142. 
Benjamin  Howard,  ship,  18. 
Bertha,  bark,  78. 
Bettx,  sloop  yacht,  137,  141. 
Black  Hawk,  ship,  78. 
Black  Prince,  ship,  116. 
Black  Warrior,  ship,  103. 
Blessing-of-the-Bay,  137. 
Blonde,  ship,  5,  16. 
Bonanza,  sch.,  78. 
Bonetta,  ship,  18. 
5orweo,  ship,  19,  110,  139. 
Boston,  U.  S.  frigate,  60. 
Boyd  and  Leeds,  sch.,  78. 
Bridgewater,  ship,  6. 
Brenda,  sch.,  19.  67. 
Brookline,  ship,  19,  144. 
Brooklyn,  U.  S.  S.,  132. 
Br?</»s',  ship,  19,  52,  54,  62,  104. 
Buck,  brig,  19. 
Cadet,  sch.,  69. 
Caesar,  U.  S.  S.,  62. 
Cadmus,  ship,  19,  153. 
Cambrian,  brig,  20,  150,  lb3. 
Camel,  brig,  20,  69,  155. 
Canada,  S.S.,&^. 
Caroline  Augusta,  ship,  96,  131. 
Carthage,  ship,  6,  20,  148,  150. 
Catherine,  bark,  20. 
Catherine,  ship,  138. 
Centurion,  brig,  20. 
Chalcedony,  bark,  20.  155. 
Charlemagne,  ship,  20,  89,  112,  126   153. 


183 


Vessels  —  Continued 

Charles  Doggett,  brig,  146. 

Charles  W.  Parker,  sch.,  140. 

Charlotte,  ship,  21. 

Chesapeake,  U.  S.  frigate,  60,  106,  153, 

155. 
Child  of  the  Regiment,  ship,  78. 
China,  ship,  6,  21,  138,  149. 
Chinchilla,  ship,  131. 
City  of  Berlin,  S.  S.,  30. 
Clarissa,  ship,  21,  108,  150. 
Claudius,  ship,  21. 
Cleopatra's  Barge,  harm,  brig.,  yacht,  7, 

10.   18,  22,  65,   106,   115,   122,   129, 

138,  155,  168. 
Clitheroe,  yacht,  141. 
Charles  Phillips,  bark,  83. 
Coeur  de  Lion,  ship,  78. 
Colin  E.  McNeil,  bark,  78. 
Columbia,  ship,  28,  98. 
Columbia,  yacht,  10. 
Commonwealth,  sch.,  78. 
Confidence,  bark,  78. 
Congress,  ship,  22. 
Congress,  U.  S.  S.,  128. 
Constellation,  U.  S.  Frigate.  61,  133. 
Constellation,  yacht,  10. 
Constitution,  U.S.   frigate,  61,  70,  79, 

125,  130,  131,  140,  152,  169. 
Corwin,  U.  S.  rev.  cut.,  58,  151. 
Coromandel,  brig,  22. 
Country's  Wonder,  143. 
Crest,  yacht,  141. 
Cultivator,  ship.  6. 
Cumberland,  S.  S..  81. 
.    Cygnet,  brig,  22,  153. 
Cvnthia,  bark,  22,  154. 
D.  Chapin,  bark,  79. 

D.  A.  Brayton,  barkentine,  79. 
Daniel  I.  Tenny,  ship,  143. 
Daniel  Webster,  ship,  34. 
Dash,  boat,  79,  84. 

David  B.  Newcomb,  sch.,  79. 
Delight,  bark,  79. 
Delphos,  ship,  79. 
Derby,  ship,  23,  79,  85,  145. 
Dewey,  dry  dock,  62,  129,  147. 
Dictator,  sch.,  79. 
Diomede,  herm.  brig,  23. 
Discovery,  sch.,  70. 
Dorothy,  sch.,  78. 
Dorothy  (2d),  sch.,  78. 
Dragon,  bark,  23,  122,  123. 
Drednought,  ship,  11,  143,  167. 
Duchesse,  d' Orleans,  ship,  112. 

E.  L.  Spirting,  sch.,  78. 
Eagle,  pinkie,  70. 
East  Boston,  str.,  144. 
Eben  Preble,  ship,  23. 


Vessels  —  Contimiea 

Edward  Koppisch,  bark,  23,  107,  115. 

Eliza,  bark,  24,  103,  155. 

Eliza,  brig,  30. 

Eliza,  ketch,  79. 

Eliza,  ship,  23. 

Eliza,  ship,  of  N.  Y.,  28. 

Eliza  Adams,  ship,  24,  152. 

Eliza  Ann,  ship,  24. 

Eliza  Burgess,  brig,  146. 

Elizabeth,  herm.  brig,  24. 

Elizabeth,  ship,  12,  24,  131. 

Ellen  Munro,  145. 

Emerald,  ship,  6,  25,  104,  107,  155. 

Emerald,  ship,  of  Boston,  10. 

Etnigrant,  ship,  25,  52. 

Empress-of-the-Seas,  ship,  25,  147. 

Endeavour,  ship,  128. 

Enterprise,  sch.,  138. 

Equator,  ship,  108. 

frm,  ship,  25,  150. 

Erie,  S.  S.,  143. 

Essex,  frigate,  5,  7,  25,  62,  79,  98,  129, 

131,  138,  149.  152,  171.  173. 
Esther,  sloop  yacht,  70,  79. 
Etta  Mildred,  sch.,  78. 
Eunice,  brig,  25,  115,  153. 
Europa,  bark,  6,  79. 
Europa,  ship,  139. 
Excelsior,  sch.,  26. 
Exchange,  ship,  110. 
Exeter,  H.  B.  M.,  58. 
Experiment,  brigantine,  8,  26,  147. 
Fame,  sch.,  26,  155. 
Fame,  ship,  26,  65,  152. 
Fanny,  ship,  27,  148,  155. 
Favorite,  ship,  125 
Fearless,  ship,  80. 
Flora,  brig,  30. 
Flora  J.  Sears,  sch.,  78. 
Florence  Howard,  sch.,  80. 
Florida.  C.  S.  A.,  92. 
F  lor  odor  a,  sloop,  80. 
F/j-mg  C/o?/<if,  ship,  11,  12,  80. 
Flying  Fish,  sch.,  80. 
Formosa,  ship,  27,  91,  92,  96,  145. 
Forrester,  ship,  80. 
Francis,  ship,  6.  27,  138,  153. 
Frank,  sch.,  80. 
Frank  G.  Rich.,  sch.,  80. 
Franklin,  ship,  27. 
Frederick  Billings,  bark,  28,  150. 
Fredonia,  sch.,  108. 
Fredonia,  ship,  28. 
Friendship  (1st),  ship,  4,  6,  29,  70,  114, 

155. 
Friendship  (2d),  ship,  29,  62. 
Frolic,  privateer,  115. 
Garland,  herm,  brig,  29. 


Vessels  —  Continued  i 

Garnet,  145. 
Gazelle,  hng,  29 
Gemsfcoc/f,  bark.  81. 
Gen.  Lincoln,  pnvateer  lUb. 
Gen.  Meade,  U.  S.  S.,  30. 
Gen.  Stark,  sch.,  138. 
Genevieve  Loretto,  sch.,  8U. 
George,  sch..  30   149 
George,  ship,  5,  10,  30  90,  ib4. 
George  Washington,  Ub. 

Gjoa,  Amundsen  s  ship,  1^8. 

Glacier,  U.  S.  S.,  62. 

Gladys  and  Sabta,  sch.,  i^. 

G//rfe,bark,5,31,81   154 

G//rfe,  ship.  6,  30,  138,  152,  153. 

Go/condfl,  bark.  81. 

GoWen  PKes/,  ship,  31.  81,  154-  ^^ 

Go;;.  £«rf/co//,  ship,  brig,  bark,  31,  ii^, 

Grand  Turk,  brig,  Pf^.^^teer  /,  32   153 

Grand  Turk  (1st).  shiP.  4,  31    lU- 

Grand  Turk  (2d),  ship,  5,  6,  32,  138. 

Great  Eastern,  S.  i^-./U. 

Groiius,  ship,  ship,  32.  i£>.^. 

G;arfe.  bark,  5.  81. 

G^emere,  H.  B.  M.,  128.  131. 

G?<emere.  U.  S.  S..  98. 

//  H.  Co/e,  sch.,  8,  34,  148. 

//«//,  ship.  31.     ^^   ,^^ 

Hamilton,  bark,  32,  14». 

Hamilton,  brig,  32. 

Hancock,  bark,  81. 

//«rrv  Bluff,  sch.,  81.  140. 

//crr^-  Knoidtonszh.,^\. 

Harvev  Birch,  ship,  32,  64,  149. 

Hazaid,  ship,  33.  148 

Hector,  privateer,  10b. 

//enrv,  brig,  106. 

Henrv  Dennis,  sch.,  141. 

//ewrv  Tuke,  ship.  33,  144. 

//^roW,  ship.  10. 

Herald,  brig.  33. 

//er/;er/  Fz^Z/er,  barken  tine,  /I. 

//erc»/es,  ship,  33,  96.  154. 

Highlander,  ship.  6..  34. 

Horace,  ship.  34. 

Howard,  ship,  34. 

Hygieia,  ship,  34. 

Iceberg,  145. 

/da/;o,  sch.,  81. 

Mer,  yacht,  141. 

/«d«s,  brig,  34,  107 

Insurgente,  Fr.  frigate,  bl,  IJ^. 

lolanthe,  sch.,  81. 

/on,  ship,  122. 

/oni'a,  bark,  71. 

/rzs,  ship,  34. 

y.  S.  Lamprey,  sch.,  141. 


Vessels  —  Co?ja>nied 
Jflwes,  sch.,  76. 
/o?Hes  5.  Eaton,  sch..  141. 
/awes  Baines,  ship.  H. 
7aw?<s.  ship,  104 
yat;c,  H.  B.  M.,  61,  152. 
7flt;«.  ship.  113. 
Jefferson,  yacht.  138. 
/ersej'.  bark,  5. 

7o/m:  ketch,  ship,  35    105.  148^ 
>/zw  5er/r«m,  ship.  6.  11,  3b,  loy.  loo. 
/o/znI>reM;,  sch.,81. 
/o/zn  H.  Millay,  bark,  3b. 
Ao/m  r?<c/eer,  ship,  35. 
Joseph  Peabody,  brig,  35. 
Josiah  Bradlee,  ship,  3b. 
J«/?on.  ship,  36,  47. 
/»/ms,  ship,  36,  48,  148. 
Junius,  ship,  116. 
/»/w,  ship,  107. 
y»/..7er,  H.  B.  M    o8.^^ 
Kearsarge,  U.  b.  ^•.  i— -• 
Kingfisher,  bark,  81.  . 
Lad>'  Sarah,  herm.  brig,  3b. 
Lffrfv  Washington,  sloop.  Z». 
La  Grawge,  bark,  36,  71. 
Lalla  Rookh,  slaver,  39. 
Lantao,  ship.  36 
La  Plata,  bark.  82.  140. 
Larchmont,  str.,  81. 
Lflz<ra.  brig.  36,  113. 
Leander,  brig,  37   139   147 
Lena  M.,  Block  Island  boat,  71. 
Letitia,  sch.,  81,  140. 
LeM/is,  bark,  146. 
LeM)«s  Osfcorwe,  steam  tug,  8Z. 
Leyan/,  ship,  37,  41. 
Lzg/?<  Horse,  ship,  4,  lb4. 
Lightning,  sU^,  H-  ^ 

LHZze  A.  Roby,  sch.,  82,  14U. 
Liverpool,  ship,  37. 
L/o>'d,  ship,  151.      ^ 
Lombard,  ship.  27,  o8,  i^^- 
London,  ship,  144. 
Loios,  ship,  37. 
Lo/ae  S.  A4oulton,  sch.,  82. 
Lowzsa,  ship,  yacht  37,  59,  Ib^. 
Lu^ra,  herm.  brig,  3/. 
Lz<cza,  sch.,  82. 
M  Shepard,  brig,  82,  139. 
Macedonzan,  H.  B.  M.  frigate,  b3. 
Macedonian,  privateer,  uo- 
McGilvery,  bark,  38. 
Madagascar,  ship,  no. 
Mezd  o/  Orleans,  bark,  38. 
Mame,  U.  S.  S.,  132. 
Ma/afcar,  ship.  110.  ^.q 

Ma/aj,  brig,  bark,  12,  38,  110,  IbU. 
Malay,  ship,  38,  14b. 


[85 


Vessels  —  Continued 

Margaret,  ship,  4,  6.  28,  38,   138,   148, 

152,  155. 
Maria  Theresa,  sch.,  82. 
Mars,  brig,  39. 
Martha,  brigantine,  115. 
Marx,  ship,  39. 
Marx  Edith,  sch.,  78. 
Mary  Felker,  sch.,  39,  71. 
Marx  Gleason,  sch.,  78. 
Marx  H.  Greer,  sch.,  78. 
Marx  P.  Mosqiiiia,  sch.,  78. 
Marx  Pauline,  brig,  39. 
Marx  (Did  Ellen,  brig,  107. 
Marquis  de  Somerulas,  ship,  114. 
Massachusetts,  ship,  28,  105. 
Maltapan.  ship,  82. 
Mattie  Brundage,  sch.,  78. 
Mattie  W.  Atwood,  sch.,  82. 
Matty  Taylor,  82. 
Mayflower,  yacht,  10. 
MegunticQok,  bark,  82. 
Merrimac,  U.  S.  S.,  (1789),  143. 
Merrimac  (Virginia),  C.  S.  A.,  128. 
Mermaid,  brig,  39. 
Melamora,  brig,  39. 
Metis,  bark,  40,  154. 
Mexican,  brig,  40,  82,  107,  138. 
Milo,  ship,  37,  41. 
Mindora,  sch.,  82. 
Mindoro,  ship,  4,  6,  7,  40,  75,  89,  90,  91, 

96,  127,  145,  151,  154,  155. 
Minerva,  Br.  ship,  151. 
Minnesota,  bark,  41,  153. 
Missionarx  Packet,  sch.,  139,  169. 
Monarch,  H.  B.  M.,  64,  147. 
Monitor,  U.  S.  S.,  128. 
Monk,  ship,  41,  147. 
Montauk,  ship,  41,  154. 
Montgomery,  privateer,  10b. 
Mount  Vernon,  ship,  4,  6,   41,   6o.    138, 

148. 
Mutlah,  ship,  42. 
Naiad,  brig,  42,  153. 
Nancy,  ship,  42,  148. 
Nashville,  C.  S.  A.,  32,  64,  149. 
Natchez,  bark,  42,  155. 
Naumkeag,  steam  tug.  56,  148. 
Navigator,  ship,  42,  155. 
Nellie  G.,  vacht,  12o. 
Nellie  Rich,  sch.,  83. 
N'eponset,  ship,  43. 
Neptune,  ship,  83,  84. 
Neptune's  Car,  yacht,  83. 
Nereus,  brig,  of  Boston,  43,  laO. 
Nereus,  brig,  of  Salem,  43. 
New  England,  ship,  43,  149. 
Neiv  Hazard,  brig,  43,  155. 
New  Hope,  H.  B.  M.,  58. 


Vessels  —  Continued 

New  Jersey,  ship,  5. 

Niagara,  U.  S.  S.,  128. 

Nineveli,  barkentine,  83. 

Northumberland,  herm.  brig,  43. 

Ocean  Eagle,  sch.,  76. 

Ocean  Express,  ship,  135. 

Ohio,  herm.  brig,  43. 

Ohio,  U.  S.  S.,  62,  71. 

Olinda,  brig,  7,  44,  153. 

Olive  Branch,  sch.,  llo. 

Oliver  Crotnwell,  ship,  116. 

Omaha,  U.  S.  S..  132. 

Ontario,  steamship,  43. 

Ontario.  V.  S.  S.,  62,  147. 

Packet,  ship,  44,  155. 

Paladin,  ship,  44. 

Pallas,  bark,  44. 

Pcmielia,  brig,  44,  149. 

Panay,  ship,  6,  7,  83.  127.  145. 

Panther,  steam  tug.  36,  48. 

Paris,  ship,  144. 
[        Partridge,  ship,  30. 
'        Po/r/W,  bark,  44.  151. 

Palsex  B.  Blount,  brigantine,  44. 

Paulina,  H.  M.  brig,  15. 

Paul  Revere,  ship,  83. 

Pearl  Nelson,  sch.,  83. 

Peggy,  brig,_45. 

Pericles,  14o. 

Perseverance,  ship,  45,  116. 

Persia,  brig,  4o,  83. 

P^/re/,  yacht,  71. 

Philip,  brig.  30^ 

Phosnix,  brig,  4o. 

Planet,  sch.,  45. 

P/o/o,  sch.,  46. 

Pofnona.  H.  B.  M.,  33. 

Pontiac.  vacht,  83. 

Polomac.'V.  S.  S.,  29,  62,  172. 

Prairie  Flower,  sch.,  140. 

Princess  Elizabeth,  H.  B.  M.  Packet,  16. 

Progress,  bark,  83.  88.  89.  96.  98,  124, 
128. 

Propontis,  ship,  46.  151. 

Prudent,  ship,  4,  6,  46.  138.  155. 

Putnam,  ship,  103. 

Pxthian,  sch.,  78. 

Quebec.  H.  B.  M.,  64. 

Quero,  sch.,  10. 

R.  C.  Winthrop,  ship,  122. 

Racehorse,  ship,  153. 

Raduga,  ship.  46,  113,  152. 

Rambler,  brig,  115. 

Rambler,  sloop  vacht,  17. 

/?e«/?er,  brig,  bark,  12.  46,  47,  103,  153. 

Rebecca,  sch.,  71. 

Recovery,  ship,  4,  46,  155. 

Richard,  bark,  36.  47,  151. 


1 86 


Vessels  —  Continued 
Rienza,  sloop,  84. 
Rising  States,  bng,  72. 
Risk,  sch.,  84. 

/?ofeer/,  bark,  84.  ,o   .v   icd. 

Robert  Pulsford,  ship,  42,  47,  155. 
Rolla,  brig,  47,  149. 
Rome,  ship,  6,  47,  151. 
;?ow/?,  brig,  84,  109. 
Roosevelt,  Arctic  ship,  132. 
/?092<f ,  brig,  48. 
Rosalie,  sch.,  84. 
/?ofer,  ship.  102. 
/?Msse//,  brig,  48. 
Said  bin  Sultan,  bark,  115. 
5/.  Clair,  ship,  48,  84. 
St.  Paul,  ship,  48,  50. 
S«/m,U.S.S.,62,  122,  125,  129. 

Sallv,  ship,  48. 

Samuel  R.  Crane,  sch.  84. 

Sapphire,  ship,  12,  48. 

Scion,   brig,  122. 

Screamer,  bark,  84. 

Sm  Fox,  bark,  72. 

Sea-Horse,  brig.  30. 

Sffl  M/c/z,  ship,  72. 

Senator  Lodge,  sch.,  84. 

Seth  Stockbridge,  sch.,  S4. 

Shannon,  H.  B.  M.,  frigate,  bO,  lo3,  lo5. 

Slmcmut,  ship,  84. 

Shirley,  ship,  7,  36,  48,  148. 

S/ow,  ship,  49.  _ 

5/''  John  Franklin,  ship,  l33. 

Skobekff,  barkentine,  49. 

Solomon  Piper,  bark,  125. 

Sotnerset,U.B.M.,12S. 

Sooloo   (let),   ship,  49,   139,   145,   149 

151. 
Sooloo  (2d),  ship.  49,  145. 

Sophronia,  bark,  49. 

South  Carolina,  ship,  49,  63,  151. 

Sparrotvhawk,  (1626),  72,  173. 

Spv,  sch.,  40,  115. 

Star,  bark,  50,  109. 

Star,  ship,  50. 

Statesman,  bark,  12,  48,  50. 

Sie//o,  sloop,  79.  84. 

Sukey,  brigantine,  8,  150,  152. 

Sultana,  85. 

Sultanee,  ship,  102. 

Sumatra,  ship.  23,  50.  85,  139. 

Sunshine,  yacht,  141. 

Surprise,  sch.,  privateer,  50,  110. 

Surveillante,  French,  64. 

Susan,  ship,  131. 

Susan  Drew,  ship,  5,  50,  155. 

Sylvia  W.  Swasey,  bark,  51. 

Syren,  ship,  85,  98,  145. 
fake-il-Easy,  yacht,  87. 


Vessels  —  Continued 
Tamaahmaah,  ship,  131. 
Taria  Topan,  bark,  5,  51,  140,  154. 
Tartar,  ship,  51. 
Telemachus,  ship,  107. 
Theresa  Baker,  sch.,  85. 
r/?e//s,  herm.  brig,  51. 
Thomas  Brundage,  sch.,  78. 
Thomas  J.  Carroll,  sch.,  78. 
Thomas  Perkins,  ship,  5,  51. 
Three  Friends,  111. 
Tidal  Wave,  bark,  51,  155. 
Tiger,  pinkie,  72. 
Tioga,  yacht,  141. 
Topaz,  brig,  51,  153. 
Trafton,  sch..  80. 
Trew/,  ship,  52. 
Triumphant,  ship,  52,  152. 
Troubadour,  ship,  25,  52. 
Truman,  bark,  85. 
Tm'O  Brothers,  ship,  52,  152. 
rvtcc,  ship,  52.  152. 
Ulysses,    (1st),   ship,    19,    o2,   o4.    iU/, 

148,  150. 
Ulysses  (2d),^ship,  53,  110,  153. 
Union,  ship,  53. 
Uiiited  States,  ship,  53,  154. 
United  States,  U.  S.  frigate,  63. 
I        Velocitv,  brig,  103. 
1        Videtie,  str.,  142. 
Vigilant,  yacht,  10. 
Vincennes,  U.  S.  S..  63. 
Vintage,  brig,  53,  148. 
Wo/o,  whaling  sch.,  142. 
Vizcava,  Spanish  ship,  128. 
Volus'ia,  ship,  19,  52,  53,  150. 
Water  Witch,  sch.,  54. 
Waverly,  brig.  a4. 
Welaka,  sch..  54. 
W^/n'w,  sch.,  115. 
White  Swalloiv,  ship,  54,  148. 
Wild  Goose,  brig,  112. 
William,  ship,  54. 
William  H.  Thorndyke,  sch.,  85. 
William  Schroder,  bark,  54. 
W//c/?,  bark,  54,  139.  ,    ^    —    on 

Witch-of-the-Wave,   ship,   6,   7,   do,   by, 

122,  123,  131. 
Witchcraft,  ship,  6,  11,  145. 
Zaine,  herm.  brig,  55. 
Zotoff,  bark,  55,  173. 
Vessels,  earliest  built,  137. 
largest,  139,  143. 
lists  of  merchant,  170. 
paintings  and  models,  60. 
Vittaluga,  A.,  22,  45,  155. 

Wales,  George  C,  50,  155. 
Wallis,  Mrs.  M.  D.,  55,  173. 


187 


Walrus  tusks,  131. 
Ward,  Andrew,  115. 

Samuel  C,  115. 

William,  4,  26,  29,  45,  47,  155. 

William  R.  L.,  115. 
Watch,  99. 

Water  testing  (water-bottle),  99. 
Waters,  Joseph  Linton,  27. 

Richard  P.,  113. 
Webb,  Captain,  16. 

Thomas,  61,  141. 

W.  H.,  41. 
W^ld,  Dr.  Charles  G.,  115,  158. 
West,  Captain,  118. 

Benjamin  A.,  123. 

Benjamin  F.,  20,  23.  24.  29,  37,  42,  50, 
54,  155. 

Edward,  33. 

Nathaniel,  100,  116,  118.  138. 
Weston,  Edward  S.,  17. 

Nathaniel.  123,  128. 
Weytz,  P.,  42,  47,  155. 
Whale  boat.  75. 


Whaling,  24,  33,  41,  83,  8i 
170,  171,  173. 
collection,  124. 
from  Lynn,  12. 
from  Salem.  12. 
pictures,  171. 
vessels,  72,  75,  142.  173. 


92,  124.  144, 


Whales'  teeth,  131. 
Whall,  W.  B.,  31,  173. 
Whampoa,  paintings,  67. 
Wharf,  Crowninshield's,  26,  65. 

Derby,  65. 
Wheatland,  Richard,  13,  45,  116. 
Wheelright,  48. 
W^hipple,  Henrv,  17. 
White,  F.  A.,  84. 

GeorgeM.,25,39,  116,  155. 
Whittredge,  Captain,  97. 

Henrv  T.,  116. 
Wilkes,"Com.  Charles,  63,  118.  173. 
Williams,  Captain,  118. 

Aaron,  20. 

Charles  F.,  43. 

John,  128. 
Willoby,  Captain,  118. 
Winn,  Francis  A.,  116. 

Xebec,  see  Chebec. 

Yahgan  Indians,  boat  model.  162. 
Yamasaki,  Prof.  H.,  28. 
Yamqua,  119,  157. 
Yawl,  9. 
Young,  Job.  77. 

Zanzibar,  66.  1 13. 


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